KIEV, July 16 - Industrial output in Ukraine grew by 10.4% year-on-year in June, up from 9.9% in May.

KIEV, July 17 - Transportation Minister Mykola Rudkovskiy must be fired for "incompetence" following a train crash in western Ukraine that produced a toxic cloud in the area, President Viktor Yushchenko's office said Tuesday.

KIEV, July 17 - Fourteen people were taken to the hospital and hundreds evacuated from their homes in western Ukraine after a train, carrying yellow phosphorus, crashed causing fire and emitting poisonous gas, officials said Tuesday.

KIEV, July 17 ??“ President Viktor Yushchenko will probably join an informal meeting of leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States on Saturday and Sunday in Moscow, a spokeswoman to the president said Monday.

KIEV, July 17 ??“ The Socialist Party will probably not make it to Parliament in the case of an early election as voters would punish the group for its recent defection to the pro-Russian camp, opinion polls show.

KIEV, July 14 ??“ The World Bank will resume financing a project to combat the spread of tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS in Ukraine immediately after consultations on this matter are finished.

KIEV, July 17 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny increased the oil and gas condensate production by 5.7% on the year to 2.05 million metric tons in January through June, the Fuel and Energy Ministry reported.

STRELNA, July 17 ??“ Russia will seek to get control over Ukraine??™s natural gas pipelines through new legislation to ensure safety of gas supplies to the European Union, a Russian minister said.

KIEV, July 14 - President Viktor Yushchenko??™s security advisor, Petro Poroshenko, said Thursday he will next week travel to Moscow to try to resolve an escalating Russian-Ukrainian natural gas dispute.

KIEV, July 14 - Ukraine will seek to join an international consortium to build a $10 billion natural gas pipeline that would link vast Iranian natural gas fields with consumers in Europe, a senior Ukrainian official said Thursday.