ODESSA, Nov. 25 – Law enforcement has taken under guard fuel at Odessa oil refinery and is carrying out investigative actions, the Prosecutor General's Office in Odessa region told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Nov. 25 – Parliament passed a law on the allocation of UAH 1.3 billion to pay the difference in tariffs on heat and water supply and sewage using profit tax paid by National Nuclear Generating Company EnergoAtom.

IVANO-FRANKIVSK, Nov. 25 – Israeli company S.I. Group Consort Ltd. is going to start removing hexachlorobenzene from Dombrovsky open pit in Kalush (Ivano-Frankivsk region) this week, a company representative said.

KIEV, Nov. 25 - The Ukrainian next-generation An-158 regional passenger aircraft during trials in Latin America in November confirmed its capabilities to use airfields altitudes of up to 4,000 meters above sea level, Antonov State Enterprise announced.

KIEV, Nov. 22 – Zaporizhtransformator (ZTR) has supplied a first batch of three 40 MVA 150 kV transformers for the largest wind power plant in Ukraine - the Botiyeve Wind Power Station (Zaporizhia region), which is part of the DTEK Pryazovsky wind farm.

KIEV, Nov. 22 - The placement of 10-year eurobonds worth $1.25 billion has provided the government of Ukraine with sufficient currency liquidity if the credit program of the International Monetary Fund is postponed until the first quarter of 2013, Dragon Capital chief economist Olena Bilan said.

KIEV, Nov. 23 – Ukraine is open for dialogue and close cooperation with the EU Delegation to Ukraine and the EU Border Assistance Mission to Moldova and Ukraine (EUBAM), Mykola Lytvyn, head of the State Border Guard Service.

KIEV, Nov. 22 – National Bank of Ukraine is studying the possibility of pegging the hryvnia forex rate to a bi-currency basket, according to Oleksandr Dubykhvist, the director of the NBU's department of foreign exchange reserve regulation and transactions in the open market.

KIEV, Nov. 24 – Zaporizhia-based Ivchenko-Progress state-run enterprise has drawn up a project on the creation of a new generation 12 MW gas turbine engine designed to upgrade the Ukrainian gas transport system.

KIEV, Nov. 24 – Around 300,000 businessmen out of the current two million individual taxpaying businessmen will have to transfer to the general taxation system on the introduction of the Tax Code, the head of the state committee for regulatory policy and entrepreneurship, Mykhailo Brodsky, said at a briefing.