KIEV, March 18 – Ukraine exported major conventional arms worth $1.344 billion in 2012, becoming the fourth largest arms exporter in the world, according to the data published by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

KIEV, March 19 – The Cabinet of Ministers has set quotas on imports of coking coal to protect the interests of national producers, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytsky has said.

KIEV, March 19 - The Odessa oil refinery will resume work on March 29, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytsky said.

"The formal launch of operations at the Odessa oil refinery is scheduled for March 29," the minister said. He did not specify possible crude supply routes for the refinery.

ZAPORIZHIA, March 20 - Group DF plans to build new titanium slag and titanium sponge production facilities at the Zaporizhia Titanium and Magnesium Plant (ZTMK), the owner of the group, Dmytro Firtash, said at a press conference in Zaporizhia.

KIEV, March 20 - Ukraine’s steel and coal mining sector executives are scrambling to come up with measures to stop the government’s plan to restrict imports of coking coal, an industry source said Wednesday.

KIEV, March 19 – Some 15 companies have applied to the Environment and Natural Resources Ministry to participate in a tender to sign a production sharing agreement for the joint development of Oleska and Yuzovska areas, minister Mykola Zlochevsky said at a press conference in Kiev on Monday.

KIEV, March 19 – According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the volume of exports of the main kinds of armament exported by Ukraine in 2011 was estimated to be worth $484 million, putting Ukraine 12th in the institute's rating of world weapons exporters.

KIEV, March 20 – Entrepreneurs from the Kiev-based Lukyanivsky market have asked for protection against illegal seizures.

KIEV, March 20 – The State Tax Service in January and February 2012 refunded almost UAH 770 million in value added tax on metal products exported to other countries by ArcelorMittal Kryviy Rih (Dnipropetrovsk region).

KIEV, March 17 – The construction of the third and fourth reactors at Khmelnitsky Nuclear Power Plant will cost around UAH 33 billion ($4.154 billion), saud Volodymyr Bronnikov, the director general of Atomproektengineering, a subdivision of EnergoAtom, said in Kiev on Thursday.