KIEV, Oct. 26 - Ukraine resumed rolled steel exports to China earlier this year after such shipments had virtually stopped late last year due to the collapse in demand, the Industrial Policy Ministry reported Monday.

KIEV, Oct. 26 – Switzerland's Ukrenergy Holding AG, the managing company of a joint holding of Ukrinterenergo and Switzerland's Korlea Invest Holding AG, has agreed with the Ukrainian cabinet on the location of a land plot of 17.8 hectares to build a first small hydro power plant of the 24 MW cascade on the Teresva River in Zakarpattia region.

The decision is stipulated in cabinet resolution No. 1234 of Oct. 21, 2009 published last week.

KIEV, Oct. 23 – A revival of merger and acquisition deals started in Ukraine in September and a surge is expected in 2010, according to participants of a conference held in Kiev by Baker Tilly Ukraine together with the Wolf Theiss law firm and Mergermarket company.

KIEV, Oct. 26 – Russia is trying to apply an additional lever of influence on Ukraine through the fomenting of broad international support for the South Stream gas pipeline, Ukraine’s Ambassador to Turkey Serhiy Korsunsky said in an interview published in a Saturday issue of the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (Mirror Weekly) Newspaper.

KIEV, Oct. 23 –Ukrainian steel mills in January to September cut investment into technical re-equipment by a preliminary 10-11% year-over-year, to around UAH7 billion.

KIEV, Oct. 23 - Ukraine's steel industry may reduce output of long and flat products 11.8% this year to 28.8 million tons, Andriy Fedoseyev, president of the Ukrainian Metal Traders' Association, told Interfax.

PRAGUE, Oct. 25 - The natural gas deal concerning supplies from Russia to Ukraine signed Tuesday will have a positive impact on the Czech Republic's natural gas market, Czech natural gas suppliers said Wednesday.

KIEV, Oct. 25 ??“ Agreements on cooperation in aircraft building reached at the first meeting of the committee for economic cooperation of the Ukrainian-Russian interstate commission allow Ukraine to expect a significant revival in the sector in the near future, according to First Deputy Industry Minister Volodymyr Ryzhov.

WARSAW, Oct. 25 - Poland is unlikely to avoid a gas price hike on the part of Russian Gazprom in the wake of that company??™s supply agreement with Ukraine, according to media reports.

Moscow, Oct. 26 - The Novokramatorsk Machine-building plant, one of Ukraine's largest heavy engineering companies, will deliver equipment to SUAL Holding in 2007 for upgrades to the hot-rolling mill-2840 at the Russian aluminum group's Kamensk-Uralsky Metallurgical Plant (KUMZ).