KIEV, Dec. 28 – The Ukrtrubprom association of pipe companies (Dnipropetrovsk) has said that supply of scrap ferrous metal to metal companies has worsened and its exports have increased.

KIEV, Dec. 28 – Overdue debt on VAT refunding of UAH 1.014 billion was paid to Zaporizhia Steel Works Zaporizhstal, one of the largest taxpayers of Ukraine and Zaporizhia region.

KIEV, Dec. 28 - Real wages in Ukraine in November fell by 14% year-on-year, and by 2.7% from October 2015, the State Statistics Service reported.

KIEV, Dec. 28 - Azovelektrostal (Mariupol, Donetsk region), part of Azovmashinvest Holding, in the framework of commissioning works on the launch of the main equipment after a year of inactivity has conducted test smelting in the DSP-25 furnace, making the first three of the twelve parts ordered by ArcelorMittal Algeria.

KIEV, Dec. 30 – Ukraine's gross domestic product, after declining by 1% this year, will resume its slow growth, and rise by 1.5% in 2014, Moody's Investors Service said.

KIEV, Dec. 30 - Ukraine’s second-largest oil refinery will most likely resume operation in July 2014, Volodymyr Prystiuk, the head of Luhansk regional state administration, said.

KIEV, Dec. 30 – Azovobschemash, part of public joint-stock company Azovmash (both based in Mariupol, Donetsk region) is preparing to supply a third batch of special-purpose equipment in 2014 for the Cyclone-4 rocket complex being built by Ukraine and Brazil at the Alcantara Space Center in Brazil.

KIEV, Dec. 30 - Gazprom will most likely reduce its natural gas prices on supplies to Ukraine after January 10, Deputy Prime Minister Yuriy Boyko said Monday.

KIEV, Dec. 29 ??“ President-elect Viktor Yushchenko will seek to change the way Ukraine and Russia plan to boost natural gas supplies to Europe via a joint venture, an official said.

KIEV, Dec. 29 ??“ In 2005, the National Bank of Ukraine will pursue a monetary and credit policy appropriate to the economic processes currently underway in the state, and the inflation rate, as measured by the consumer price index, will be a priority guiding its monetary policy.