KIEV, March 3 – The European Union says there can be no return to business as usual in EU-Russia relations as long as the Ukraine crisis remains unsettled.

KIEV, March 3 – The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the financial plan of Ukrzaliznytsia that was submitted by Infrastructure Minister Andriy Pyvovarsky.

KIEV, March 3 – Exports of goods from Ukraine to Russia fell by 48% year-over-year in January, following restriction of trade between the two countries, to $121 million, while imports from Russia plunged by 60.6%, to $246 million, according to preliminary data presented by the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, March 3 – OJSC Turboatom (Kharkiv), Ukraine's largest producer of turbine equipment, in late February signed an agreement with the Atomkomplekt division of National Nuclear Generating Company EnergoAtom, to supply a condenser for reactor two of Yuzhnoukrainsk nuclear power plant.

MOSCOW, March 3 – A new trilateral meeting on gas will be held at the end of March, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak told reporters in Brussels.

The meeting will discuss issues concerning gas supplies to Ukraine in the summer.

KIEV, March 3 - Russian interests have been trying to take over the regional energy company ChornomorNaftoGaz, Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Prodan said Monday.

“Attempts are being made to forcibly take over the company,” Prodan said. “Actions like that, such as meddling with the energy, power and gas transportation systems, can have severe consequences.”

KIEV, Feb. 28 - PJSC State Food and Grain Corporation of Ukraine, according to a loan agreement with the Export-Import Bank of China, plans this year to purchase and deliver four million tons of grain to China.

KIEV, March 1 – Lviv City Council has supported a draft address to the country's leadership that contains an appeal to return Lviv Bus Plants holding company (LAZ) to state ownership.

MOSCOW, March 1 - The possible creation of a free trade area between Ukraine and the European Union could lead to the imposition of protective measures by the Customs Union of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus, Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) Trade Minister Andrei Slepnev told reporters.

KIEV, March 1 – Shell in Ukraine has expressed hope that the Yuzovska gas field in Donetsk and Kharkiv regions will be put up for a tender to select an investor for the development of the field under a product sharing agreement (PSA) agreement by June 2011, the head of Shell's representation in Ukraine, Patrick van Daele, said in Kiev on Tuesday.