KIEV, Oct. 22 – A first production line to recycle mercury-containing light bulbs in Ukraine was launched in Lviv at the city’s combined heat and power plant on October 20, 2015, the press service of Lviv City Council reported.

KIEV, Oct. 22 – The State Fiscal Service has carried out more searches of IT companies to investigate the illegal conversion of money.

Deputy Chairman of the State Fiscal Service Serhiy Bilan wrote on his Facebook page on Wednesday that the money was converted under the guise of the purchase and sale of currency, raw materials and shares of companies on virtual markets.

MOSCOW, Oct. 21 – Russian agricultural watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor announced it is imposing a temporary ban on shipments of monitored plant products from Ukraine starting October 22.

KIEV, Oct. 21 - Holtec International (the United States) has started building a waste nuclear fuel storage facility two on the site of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, the plant's press service reported.

KIEV, Oct. 22 – The Ukrainian Infrastructure Ministry hopes for the implementation of certain projects on restoring the operation of the transport system in Donbas as part of the provision of EUR 500 million as loan guarantees from Germany, the ministry's press service has reported.

KIEV, Oct. 22 – EnergoAtom should step up work on the completion of construction of reactors and cooperate not with Russian companies, but with European ones.

KIEV, Oct. 22 – Ukraine as a shareholder in International Uranium Enrichment Center (IUEC, Angarsk, Russia) plans to increase the volume of uranium enrichment for its own needs by using quotas not used by other shareholders in the center, IUEC Commercial Director Gleb Efremov told Ukrainian reporters in Angarsk.

KIEV, Oct. 22 - Stakhanov wagon plant (Luhansk region), a large railcar manufacturing enterprise in Ukraine, plans to temporarily cut a third of its workforce due to the difficult economic situation in the CIS wagon building sector, which has resulted in a fall in the production of wagons, Chairman of the company's supervisory board Eduard Misevra has said.

KIEV, Oct. 22 - Ukraine suspended imports of European natural gas via Poland in October and reduced by half imports via Hungary after Russia lowered its gas supply prices, an official said Tuesday.

ILLICHIVSK, Oct. 19 - Cargill and the Ukrainian state enterprise Illichivsk Maritime Merchandise Port have signed a protocol of intent concerning the building at the port of a complex for the storage and transshipment of grain and oilseed with handling capacity of 4.5 million tons a year and costing about $80-$90 million.