KIEV, Feb. 24 - Ukraine suspended all upfront payments for supplies of Russian natural gas following Russian gas giant Gazprom’s failure to deliver ordered and prepaid gas over the past two days, Naftogaz reported Tuesday.

Naftogaz ordered supplies of 114 million cubic meters of gas both, on February 22 and February 23, but the Russian company had only delivered 47 million cu m and 39 million cu m, respectively.

KIEV, Feb. 21 - Danone Ukraine, one of the largest dairy producers in Ukraine, has decided to reallocate the production facilities of its Galakton dairy plant in Kiev to enterprises in Kremenchuk (Kremez) and Kherson (Danone Dnipro) by May 2015.

MOSCOW, Feb. 21 - It will be difficult to persuade Customs Union businesses to resume cooperation with Ukraine, Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) Trade Minister Andrei Slepnyov told a press conference in Moscow on Friday.

MOSCOW, Feb. 21 - Ukraine's political crisis could have a negative impact on agricultural producers, although Russian consumers will not feel the consequences if there are disruptions to agriculture exports from Ukraine, Russian Agriculture Minister Nikolai Fyodorov said.

KIEV, Feb. 21 – Work at Mariupol confectionary factory (Donetsk region) was stopped in February, the Roshen Corporation has reported.

The corporation said the factory was stopped due to politically motivated complications with the foreign trade relations of Ukraine.

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.