KIEV, July 25 – Ukraine's state arms exporter Ukrspecexport is planning to take measures under current Ukrainian and international law in order to return to Ukraine two employees who were sentenced in Kazakhstan on July 23 to six years in prison for giving a bribe to a senior Kazakh military official, the company reported.

KIEV, July 25 – The Ukrainian government has suggested that there be a transition to a new investment policy, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said.

KIEV, July 25 - The tariff for Russian gas transit across Ukraine increased to $3.11 for 1,000 meters per 100 kilometers in the second quarter of 2012, says the Ukrainian eurobond prospectus.

KIEV, July 25 – An arbitration dispute between Ukraine and Vanco Prykerchenska Ltd. (the British Virgin Islands) will be resolved by the end of this year, Environment and Natural Resources Minister Eduard Stavytsky said.

KIEV, July 24 – Ukrainian farmers' losses from droughts late this spring and early this summer amount to UAH 13.6 billion, according to rough estimates, said Serhiy Kvasha, the director of the Agriculture and Food Ministry's economic development and agrarian market department.

KIEV, July 25 – There will be stable prices for vegetables in the domestic market this agricultural year, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov predicts.

"One can be sure that prices for vegetables will remain stable for the whole year up until the new harvest," he said opening a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers in Kiev on Wednesday.

KIEV, July 25 – The government's version of a draft law on the land market, law No. 9001-1, restricts the circle of persons who have ownership rights to farmland, which does not promote the development of the comprehensive market, Vladyslav Kysil,the head of the property practice department at KPD Consulting, told Interfax-Ukraine.

ZAPORIZHIA, July 22 – The Russian Defense Ministry has acquired one of the two An-70 military transport aircraft being built at an aircraft plant in Kiev, according to Motor Sich President Viacheslav Bohuslayev.

KIEV, July 23 – Ukraine’s grain exports over the next 12 months may drop to 16-18 million metric tons, down from 21 million metric tons exported over the past 12 months, Ukrainian Grain Association (UGA) reported.

KIEV, July 23 – Ukraine’s consumer confidence fell in June for the first time in 10 months, reflecting people’s growing concerns with the government’s economic policy, GfK Ukraine Co. and the International Center of Policy Studies (ICPS) reported.