KIEV, July 16 – Ukraine could double agricultural products trade with the United States in a few years after the updated program of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) of the United States comes into force in July, according to Ukrainian Agribusiness Club (UAC) analysts.

KIEV, July 16 - Ukraine and the United States begin the final stage of joint disposal of solid missile fuel of intercontinental ballistic missiles RS-22 (SS-24 according to the NATO classification) at Pavlohrad chemical plant in eastern Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region.

KIEV, July 17 – The business court of Kiev has denied claims of private joint-stock company UkrGaz-Energo to 3.993 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas in Ukrtransgaz underground gas storage facilities.

The decision is stipulated in court ruling of July 7, a copy of which has been sent to Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, July 17 – The reconstruction of Poshtova Square in Kiev will be conducted with traffic limited to a minimum, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said.

"We set a task for builders and designers to restrict traffic to a minimum," Azarov reported on Tuesday while visiting the Desnianska water station of PJSC Kyivvodokanal," the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers reported.

KIEV, July 18 – Ukraine hopes for cooperation with Chinese investors in the construction of a hydroelectric pumped storage power plant in Kaniv, Cherkasy region.

KIEV, July 18 – The Ukrainian government hopes that projects to transfer Ukrainian thermal power plants from natural gas to coal under an agreement with China could be launched as early as in 2013.

KIEV, July 18 – The reform of the rail sector has nothing to do with privatization, according to Director General of the State Rail Transport Administration of Ukraine (Ukrzaliznytsia) Volodymyr Kozak.

KIEV, July 19 – DTEK has signed a framework agreement with Russia's INTER RAO UES for electricity supplies to Russia, DTEK said in a company statement.

MOSCOW, July 19 – A working group involving experts from Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan should decide the fate of the Dnepr project for the use of converted RS-20 heavy intercontinental ballistic missiles (Satan, under Western classification) in space launch programs, said Vladimir Popovkin, chief of the Russian federal space agency Roscosmos.

KIEV, July 19 - The World Bank has downgraded its forecast for Ukraine's GDP growth in 2012 to 2%, down from 2.5%, Senior Economist of the World Bank Representative in Ukraine Ruslan Piontkovsky said at a press conference on Thursday.