KIEV, Oct. 10 – Reconstruction of the main arena of the Euro 2012 European Football Championship – Olympiysky National Sport Complex has cost Ukraine $560 million - 585 million, Deputy Prime Minister - Infrastructure Minister Borys Kolesnikov said.

"When we complete the east stand, hospitality areas, approaches to the stadium – I will name the final amount.

KIEV, Oct. 10 – Law enforcement authorities will be stepping up activity in Kiev on Tuesday ahead of an expected verdict in the trial of former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, the authorities and opposition figures said Monday.

KIEV, Oct. 8 - President Viktor Yanukovych assured French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Thursday that his government will not seek to re-privatize ArcelorMittal’s largest Ukrainian steelmaker, a newspaper reported Friday.

KIEV, Oct. 8 - Ukraine and Russia are discussing setting up a joint gas company, President Viktor Yanukovych said on Thursday in an interview with the French newspaper Le Figaro during a visit to Paris.

KIEV, Oct. 7 - Ukraine's government at a meeting on October 4 reached a decision to impose grain export quotas, but the decision and the extent and terms for distributing the quotas have yet to be finalized, Agriculture Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk told reporters.

KIEV, Oct. 10 – A shrinking and aging population, low energy efficiency levels and a low institutional quality judged by international standards are the key challenges facing Ukraine, according to James Wolfensohn, the ninth president of the World Bank Group, the press service of the Viktor Pinchuk Fund has reported.

KIEV, Oct. 10 - Industrial production in Ukraine grew 10.7% year-on-year in the first nine months of 2007, including 8.4% in September, the State Statistics Committee reported on Tuesday.

VILNIUS, Oct. 10 – Azerbaijan, Georgia and Lithuania on Wednesday joined Sarmatia, a Polish-Ukrainian consortium aimed at building an oil pipeline link to enable supplies of Caspian Sea crude to reach markets in the European Union.

KIEV, Oct. 10 ??“ Germany's NUKEM, which is constructing a waste treatment facility for conditioning and storage of solid radioactive waste in Ukraine under a contract with the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, has suspended a Ukraine-based employee who has been charged with corruption.

KIEV, Oct. 10 - The government plans to increase state subsidies to the coal industry by 14.4% to UAH5.8 billion in 2007, compared with UAH5.07 billion in 2006, the finance ministry said Tuesday.