The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the procedure for calculating minimum prices for grain products, sugar, and sugar raw materials. This was stated after a Cabinet meeting in an interview with journalists by Minister of Agrarian Policy Oleksandr Baranivskyi, reports "Ukrainian News.

*The issue of investment cooperation between Volyn Oblast and Vilnius County of the Republic of Lithuania was the main reason for the meeting in Vilnius of the head of the oblast state administration, Volodymyr Bondar, with representatives of local authorities and business.

In the list of enterprises with questionable privatization, which was prepared by First Vice Prime Minister Anatoliy Kinakh, four are under the control of Russian structures.

According to the results of monitoring conducted by the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy of Ukraine, Volyn, as of the beginning of April, ranked 25th among 27 regions in terms of the rate of repayment of wage arrears. And according to the latest month, we are in last place by this indicator.

The most powerful enterprise in Ukraine's dairy industry, which will process 1000 tons of milk per day, has begun construction in Vinnytsia by investors of LLC "Trading House "Western Dairy Group" from Lutsk.

In April, oil supplies to Ukrainian oil refineries decreased by 22.7% compared to March – to 1,495.1 thousand tons, reports "Ukrainian News" citing a source in the Ministry of Fuel and Energy.\n\nSupplies of Ukrainian oil in April decreased by 8.3% compared to March – to 209.7 thousand tons.

Lutsk city authorities together with the management of "Lutskvodokanal" refuted rumors about the bankruptcy and possible privatization of the enterprise.

At the Lutsk Automobile Plant, the two-thousand mark for passenger car production has once again been surpassed. In April, 2,060 VAZ-brand cars rolled off the assembly line (over four months of this year, the number of VAZ vehicles produced reached 7,958 cars), reports the press center of OJSC "Lutsk Automobile Plant.

The highest unemployment rate as of May 1 was registered in Ternopil (7.9%), Rivne (6.2%), Chernivtsi (6.1%) and Cherkasy (5.8%) oblasts; the lowest - in Kyiv (0.4%), Sevastopol (0.8%) and Odesa oblast (2.2%).

In January–April 2005, compared with the corresponding period of last year, industrial production volumes increased by 6.7%. This was reported to "proUA" by the press service of the State Statistics Committee of Ukraine.