KIEV, Dec. 19 – Ukraine in 2012 could export agricultural products worth $17 billion compared to $13 billion in 2011, acting Agrarian Policy and Food Minister of Ukraine Mykola Prysiazhniuk said.

KIEV, Dec. 20 – A Crimean court extended a bankruptcy procedure for Morye, a Feodosia-based shipyard, which is in the middle of implementing $350 million contract for China, the company reported.

KIEV, Dec. 20 - Ukraine exported 8.1 million tonnes of grain crops through December 19, Serhiy Kvasha, the head of the economic and market development department at the Agrarian Policy Ministry, said.

KIEV, Dec. 17 – Ukrainians have rated their social mood at 40 out of 100 points, according to the results of a new survey that has been conducted every month since September by the SOCIS Center for Social and Marketing Research.

VYSHGOROD, Kiev region, Dec. 17 – Ukrhydroenergo expects to sign a loan agreement with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Investment Bank worth EUR 400 million in March 2011, according to Semen Potashnyk, the chairman of Ukrhydroenergo's board.

KIEV, Dec. 17 – OSJC Stirol Concern (Horlivka, Donetsk region) is to start operating at 100% capacity by late 2011, according to Dmytro Firtash, the owner of Group DF.

"I think that by the end of next year the plant will be operating at 100%," he said in Kiev.

KIEV, Dec. 20 – Exports of scrap nonferrous metal from Ukraine in 2011 as in 2010 are to have a 24% export duty, according to a draft law on amendments to some Ukrainian laws on transactions with scrap metal passed on December 17.

KIEV, Dec. 20 – Ukraine's gross foreign debt rose by $6.989 billion, or by 6.68%, in Q3, to $111.623 billion, reads a statement posted on the Web site of the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, Dec. 20 – The Boeing concern is to supply four Boeing 737-900 ER aircraft on operating leasing conditions to Kiev-based AeroSvit.

KIEV, Dec. 17 - The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC, the United States) has restarted its programs in Ukraine, according to the corporation.

This became possible due to the signing on December 16 of an agreement settling a dispute around an investment claim, the insurance of which was paid by the corporation.