KIEV, July 29 – Mobile phone sales in Ukraine in January to June 2008 hit 3.9 million, 5.4% more year-over-year, according to a report of the analysts of Unitrade Group issued on Monday.

STANSTED, Britain, July 29 – The forecasted growth in cargo transportation by the united fleet of Ukrainian and Russian Ruslan An-124-100 by Ruslan International Ltd. (RI, Stansted, Britain) in 2008 is estimated at 20-25% compared to 2007, the company’s president, Valery Gabriel, has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, July 29 – The deficit of the current account of Ukraine's balance of payments in January to June 2008 grew by 3.4 times year-over-year, to $6.7 billion, according to the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, July 26 – National nuclear energy company EnergoAtom on July 25 signed a deal with Russia's Tekhnosnabexport on enriching Ukrainian uranium for the implementation of a Ukrainian-U.S. project on using nuclear fuel produced by Westinghouse company at Ukrainian nuclear power plants, EnergoAtom reported on Thursday.

KIEV, July 27 – Kiev-based Ukrainian Mining and Metallurgic Company, as a part of designing a technological concept for Kryvy Rih Mining and Beneficiation Plant of Oxidized Ores in Dolynske in Kirivohrad region, has held talks with representatives of Italy’s Danieli/Danieli-Corus on designing the concept for production of iron-ore pellets from black sand.

KIEV, July 27 – Ukraine’s current account deficit in January through June grew140% over the same period last year, to $1.9 billion (3.2% of GDP), the National Bank of Ukraine reported, referring to preliminary data.

KIEV, July 27 - Ukraine’s state-owned nuclear power company EnergoAtom on Thursday put two nuclear power reactors, at South-Ukrainia and Rivne nuclear power plants, in operation following maintenance work, EnergoAtom reported.

KIEV, July 27 - Ukraine’s third-largest oil refinery, KhersonNaftoPererobka, will soon undergo a $1.16 billion modernization program to upgrade its facilities, an official at the local Kherson government said Friday.

KYIV, June 28 – Some 227 out of 320 shopping centers in Ukraine have resumed their work, the press service of the Ukrainian Council of Shopping Centers (UCSC) told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, June 28 - The decision of the European Council, obliging EU countries to fill gas storage facilities by 80% by November 1, allows European countries to store strategic gas reserves in Ukraine, Energy Minister Herman Haluschenko said.