KIEV, Feb. 24 – The employees and top managers of Kyivmiskbud Holding, one of the largest construction companies in Ukraine, has expressed their sincere condolences to the families of killed protesters in Ukraine and said that the holding is ready to restore the center of Kiev, Ihor Kushnir, president and chairman, said in an official statement.

KIEV, Feb. 21 – From March 1 to December 1, 2013 receiving licenses to make medicine imports to Ukraine will bear a declarative principle to prevent there being obstacles to importing these products to Ukraine, Health Minster Raisa Bohatyriova said.

KIEV, Feb. 24 – Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Kliuyev will present the Ukrainian position regarding problems in the creation of a free trade zone between Ukraine and the European Union during talks in Brussels on March 2-3, according to a posting on the Web site of the Ukrainian government.

KIEV, Feb. 24 – Interpipe, Ukraine’s biggest steel pipe producer, plans to complete construction of an electric furnace steelmaking complex and will start tests of its equipment by the end of 2011, Interpipe said in a statement Thursday.

KIEV, Feb. 22 – The installed capacity of electrical power plants belonging to the integrated power system of Ukraine grew by 0.4% (by 203.8 MW) in 2010, to 53,162 MW, according to National Energy Company Ukrenergo.

KIEV, Feb. 22 – The Cabinet of Ministers is considering ways to resume exports of Ukrainian gas to Poland, a source in the national joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrayiny has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Feb. 23 – The cabinet could increase the country's wheat export quotas by 500,000-800,000 tons by the end of the current marketing year (July 1, 2011, MY), according to Ukrainian Agrarian Policy and Food Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk.

KIEV, Feb. 24 – The trends of the exchange rate and currency reserve security, which were positive in January, received a new push in February and have become even stronger, according to Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of the group of advisors to the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, Feb. 24 – Ukraine's gross public (direct) and guaranteed debt in 2011 is to grow to 44.2% of GDP from 39.6% of GDP as of late 2010, reads an offering memorandum on the issue of Ukraine's eurobonds drawn up by the government.

IVANO-FRANKIVSK, Feb. 23 - Another 470 tons of melange, a highly toxic liquid rocket fuel component, has been sent to Russia for disposal from the military warehouses of the Western Operative Command of the Ukrainian Ground Forces near the village of Tsenzhev, Ivano-Frankivsk region, the Defense Ministry reported.