KIEV, Aug. 8 - Ukraine has reached preliminary agreement with the Russian Federation on the supply of 150,000 tons of certain types of steel pipe to Russia by the end of the year.

According the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, the government by its order of August 6 approved a draft protocol amending the agreement regulating the supply of certain types of steel tubes produced in Ukraine to Belarus and the Russian Federation dated September 23, 2011 and gave appropriate authority to sign the document.