KIEV, Nov. 9 – Ukraine's trade unions have issued a statement ahead of the IMF mission's visit to Ukraine, in which they called for the resolution of problems by intensifying work on bringing wages out of the shadows, rather than raising the retirement age, expanding employment, and increasing the wage fund through a rise in the share of wages in operating costs for production.

KIEV, Nov. 9 - Yuriy Lutsenko, a former interior minister and a key ally of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, is under investigation by prosecutors for allegedly misspending $5,000 while in office.

KIEV, Nov. 8 – The National Bank of Ukraine won't be able to prop up the national currency without taking loans from the International Monetary Fund, MP Stanislav Arzhevitin, who is chairman of the council of the Association of the Ukrainian Banks, said during the Real Economy TV program on the UBC Channel.

KIEV, Nov. 9 - Ukraine has enough natural gas in underground gas storage facilities to ensure safe transit of Russian gas to the European Union during the upcoming winter, Bohdan Sokolovskiy, President Viktor Yushchenko’s energy envoy, said Monday.

KIEV, Nov. 9 – Deputy Prime Minister Hryhoriy Nemyria on Monday admitted that Ukraine will face problems in paying for Russian natural gas imports in January if the International Monetary Fund delays its lending.

KIEV, Nov. 9 – The top economic advisor to President Viktor Yushchenko said Monday a bill requiring the National Bank of Ukraine to print one billion hryvnias to fight swine flu epidemic must be vetoed.

KIEV, Nov. 6 – Ukraine's gross domestic product is expected to fall by 12% in 2009, forecasts Economy Minister Bohdan Danylyshyn.

"Despite the fact that we have a low comparative basis for the second half of 2008 and a certain revival of the economy seen from the second quarter, the [GDP] decline is most likely to be about 12% over the year in general," he said in an interview with the 2000 weekly.

MARIUPOL (Donetsk region), Nov. 6 – Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has proposed that the heads of mining and smelting enterprises mull the possibility of diversifying their supplies of natural gas through buying it on the European spot markets.

KIEV, Nov. 6 – The United States will donate Ukraine 930,000 doses of H1N1 vaccine out of domestic reserves in early December, the U.S. Embassy's press service said on Friday.

"In an effort to stop the global spread of pandemic 2009 H1N1 influenza virus, the United States is planning to donate 10 percent of US domestic H1N1 vaccine supply, as it becomes available, to a WHO-led H1N1 vaccine initiative.

KIEV, Nov. 7 – Ukraine should try to retain its foreign trade deficit in 2009 at $5 billion, said Petro Poroshenko, head of the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine.

"We believe that the deficit in the balance of payments and the trade balance next year should not exceed $5 billion," he said at a briefing on Thursday.