KIEV, May 25 - Ukraine will by 2030 invest over UAH 26 billion in the development of mineral resources and accelerating the rate of using strategically important mineral deposits, the Environment and Natural Resources Ministry said.

KIEV, May 26 – DTEK, the largest private vertically integrated energy holding in Ukraine, has created DTEK Naftogaz to carry out gas extraction projects, DTEK Director Maksym Tymchenko said at a press conference devoted to the long-term strategy of the company in Kiev on Wednesday.

KIEV, May 26 – Poland is actively carrying out an engineering assessment of the construction of an oil pipeline from Brody (Ukraine) to Gdansk (Poland), according to the head of the international relations department at the Presidential Administration, Andriy Honcharuk.

KIEV, May 25 – State-run EnergoAtom is holding consultations with Russia's Rosatom, Canada's AECL, Korea's KEPCO, France's AREVA, and U.S.-based Westinghouse to choose a standard design for the reactors of new nuclear power facilities in the country, EnergoAtom First Vice President and technical director Ivan Foltov announced this at the 18th international conference on nuclear engineering (ICONE18) in Xi'an (China) on May 17-20.

KIEV, May 26 – The conditions of Ukrtelecom’s privatization are to be revised, and the cabinet even could revise its decision to sell the whole of its stake in the company, according to Volodymyr Zverev, a member of the National Communications Regulatory Commission.

KIEV, May 26 – Ukraine has signed 15 out of 18 planned agreements at a meeting of the Council of CIS Prime Ministers, and supported one decision out of four put before the council, the government reported.

KIEV, May 25 – The parent structures of banks with foreign capital are strongly against an order by the National Bank of Ukraine that bank reserves only be formed in the Ukrainian currency, the hryvnia.

KIEV, May 26 - Ukraine will soon sell 150 million of Assigned Amount Units (AAUs) to companies in Switzerland and New Zealand to raise cash to finance greenhouse gases emission reduction projects, according to a government order.

BRUSSELS, May 23 – The European Commission has passed a decision placing stricter conditions on the import of Ukrainian sunflower oil, but it will still be supplied to EU countries based on issued certificates.

KIEV, May 23 – Ukraine's real GDP growth in 2008 will be 6.5%, compared to 7.6% in 2007, according to Goldman Sachs Senior Economist and Executive Director Rory MacFarquhar.