Even though the Nord Stream gas pipeline, which aims to bring Siberian gas directly to Germany under the Baltic Sea bypassing Ukraine, makes Kiev uneasy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych pledged to work together to modernize transit gas pipelines in the former Soviet republic, a move that could make other future bypasses like South Stream and Nabucco unnecessary and ensure uninterrupted Russian gas supplies to the EU.
Anatoly Hrytsenko, head of the parliamentary committee on national security and defense, inspects military equipment at the inaugural All-Ukrainian Defense Industry Forum on Aug. 31.
The Russian Navy's first aircraft carrier could be constructed in cooperation with Ukrainian shipbuilders, a source in the main headquarters of the Russian Navy told Interfax on Tuesday.
Ukraine's Customs Service has almost completely stopped grain exports and has strengthened its recently imposed additional grain quality checks, traders said on Tuesday.
A Ukrainian delegation headed by the country's energy minister, Yury Boiko, is to arrive in Moscow on Friday for talks with Gazprom's management, the Russian gas monopoly's spokesman said.
Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych said he will personally monitor the implementation of national investment projects, when speaking to the members of the president's economic reform committee in Kyiv on Wednesday.
Transport and Communications Minister of Ukraine Kostiantyn Yefymenko has supported the privatization of state enterprise Yalta maritime merchant port, the ministry's press service has reported.
Ukraine will halve its 2010 grain exports, adding pressure to markets already grappling with Russia's drought-induced grain export ban, while the world's top wheat buyer Egypt remains set on importing 6 million tonnes.
