KIEV, June 15 – The Antimonopoly Committee has said that the roaming tariffs of mobile operators in the country have been set too high, Rafael Kuzmin, first deputy head of the committee, said at a press conference in Kiev.

KIEV, June 15 – Stocks of crude oil, including gas condensate, in Ukraine fell by 28.7% in May, to 176,700 tons as of June 1, the State Statistics Service reported.

KIEV, June 17 – The National Bank of Ukraine is continuing to buy foreign currency on the interbank currency market, Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of the group of advisors to the NBU governor, told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, June 17 - Ukraine’s second-biggest steel mill, which is fending off a raider attack from undisclosed Russian investors, may later merge with Metinvest, Ukraine’s largest steel and mining group, Volodymyr Boyko, the mill director, said Thursday.

KIEV, June 15 – Ukraine and Montenegro will sign an agreement on visa-free travel for short-term trips, Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Dykusarov said at a briefing on Tuesday.

KIEV, June 15 – The Finance Ministry plans to pay debt on VAT refunds of not less than UAH 15 billion using government domestic loan bonds, Deputy Finance Minister Tetiana Yefymenko said.

KIEV, June 15 - The Finance Ministry has started working on a draft national budget for 2011 and expects to meet all terms for preparing the document set by the Budget Code, Deputy Finance Minister Tetiana Yefymenko said.

KIEV, June 17 – Recent strong wind in western regions of Ukraine have significantly damaged sown crops, Agriculture Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk said.

"Only last night about 150 hectares of grain crops were damaged," he told reporters on Tuesday evening.

KIEV, June 17 – The introduction of gasoline taxes will increase the tax load on vehicle owners but will not be an additional revenue source for the construction of roads, according to experts polled by Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, June 17 – The adoption of a law on the pubic-private sector partnership by Parliament could attract from $7 billion to $15 billion to the Ukrainian economy, the head of the parliamentary committee for industrial and regulatory policies and entrepreneurship, Natalia Korolevska, said.

"According to our estimates, this [law will attract] from $7 billion to $15 billion," she said at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine on Tuesday.