KIEV, Nov. 15 - Ukraine’s largest mining and steel group, Metinvest, shut down its sinter plant in Mariupol for a month, responding to massive protests about the poor environment in the region, the company reported Thursday.

KIEV, Nov. 16 - Ukraine will reduce imports of natural gas from Russia next year after starting alternative imports of gas from Europe, Vadym Chuprun, deputy head of Naftogaz Ukrayiny, said Friday.

KREMENCHUK, Nov. 17 – Ukraine’s five operating oil refineries and the Shebelinka gas plant (Kharkiv region) will have processed around 11 million tons of crude by the end of 2010, 4.4% or 500,000 tons less than last year.

KIEV, Nov. 17 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny expects to gain a clearer view on the issue of Ukraine gas transport system upgrade after a trilateral European Union-Ukraine-Russia meeting scheduled for November 22, Naftogaz Deputy Chairman Vadym Chuprun said at the Gas of Russia 2010 conference held in Moscow.

KIEV, Nov. 18 – Antonov state enterprise is presenting the potential of the Ukrainian aviation industry at the China Air Show 2010 held on November 16-21 in Zhuhai (China), exhibiting the promising new family of An-148/158/168 regional passenger jets and the multi-purpose An-74 aircraft.

KIEV, Nov. 18 - An oil tanker docked and started to unload its crude oil at Ukraine’s Pivdenniy oil terminal near Odessa to be sent to Belarus via the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline, an official at the terminal said Thursday.

KIEV, Nov. 18 – The State Treasury has received $1.3 billion as part of the conversion of Special Drawing Rights allocated by the International Monetary Fund to the country, Regions Party MP Mykhailo Papiyev said.

KIEV, Nov. 17 – The share of troubled credits in the Ukrainian banking system could grow to 20% by late 2009, according to Stanislav Arzhevitin, the first deputy head of the parliamentary committee for finance and banking activities and the head of the council of the Association of Ukrainian Banks.

MOSCOW, Nov. 18 – The Russian Pipe Industry Development Foundation has said that it is inexpedient to prolong an agreement signed between the Russian Ministry for Economic Development and Trade and the Ukrainian Economy Ministry on settlement of supplies of some types of steel pipes from Ukraine to Russia.

KIEV, Nov. 18 – Ukraine's GDP showed a 2.9% rise in Q3 against Q2, according the Economy Ministry said on Tuesday.

According to the ministry, in Q2, 2009 the growth was higher from Q1, 2009 – 3.9%, while in Q1, 2009 the fall of 13.3% was registered from the previous quarter.