KIEV, Dec. 26 – The Finance Ministry has drawn up a draft law extending the value-added tax exemption for transactions involving grain and industrial products through January 1, 2016 and agreed it with the state service for regulatory policy and entrepreneurship development, Justice Ministry, Income and Tax Ministry and other agencies, the Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation reported.

KIEV, Dec. 27 – Strategic financial and economic contracts with Russia and China will support the hryvnia, but retaining stability will depend on the actions of the government and the moods of the public, the Independent Association of Banks of Ukraine said.

KIEV, Dec. 27 – Ukraine is ready to start to supply Zenit launch vehicles to Russia for its new space program, but the countries need to resolve the issue of the market price of the rockets first, State Space Agency of Ukraine head Yuriy Alekseyev said.

KIEV, Dec. 27 – Kharkiv’s Turboatom won a tender this month to upgrade a turbine of unit eight of Dobrotvirska thermal power plant (Lviv region), which is part of the power generating complex of Zakhidenergo.

KIEV, Dec. 28 – Austrian-based Activ Solar has completed the final, fifth 20 megawatt, phase of the Perove solar power plant, bringing its capacity to 100 megawatts.

The PV modules cover an area of over 200 hectares and will produce 132.5 million kilowatt hours of electricity per year. Activ Solar says the park will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 105,000 tons per year.

KIEV, Dec. 29 - Mykolaiv-based state-run Zorya-Mashproekt gas turbine scientific production complex has made and supplied an experimental gas turbine with the capacity of 2.2 megawatt under an order of Poland's EuropeanSiliconSp. under the European energy saving project.

KIEV, Dec. 28 – The Industry Ministry has demanded that Arcelor Mittal Kryviy Rih steelmaker comply with the conditions of a memorandum on mutual understanding signed between the Ukrainian cabinet and mining and metals companies, and in particular, on selling products on the domestic market at prices that do not exceed export prices.

MOSCOW, Dec. 28 - Russian nuclear fuel producer OJSC TVEL and Ukraine's national nuclear power company EnergoAtom signed a contract on the supply of nuclear fuel to Ukrainian power plants in 2010, a TVEL press release says.

KIEV, Dec. 29 – If the pace of growth in employment and fall in unemployment continue, Ukraine could reach the pre-crisis level of employment of the population in 2.5 years, according to the International Labor Organization.

IVANO-FRANKIVSK, Dec. 29 – The chairman of the Ivano-Frankivsk province state administration, Mykola Paliychuk, said that the state tax policy could force companies with foreign investment could stop operating and move outside Ukraine.