KYIV, Aug 28 – Natural gas stocks in underground gas storage (UGS) facilities in Ukraine increased to 14 billion cubic meters as of the end of August, NJSC Naftogaz Ukrainy CEO Oleksiy Chernyshov has said.

KYIV, Aug 29 – The Ministry of Infrastructure is not considering the resumption of exports of metal products within the framework of the grain initiative, but will initiate it at the first opportunity, Deputy Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Yuriy Vaskov said.

KYIV, Aug 28 – The financial condition of Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) is currently stable, allowing the company to pay all current payments, and is in dialogue with the state, UIA CEO Yevhen Dykhne said.

KYIV, Aug 28 – The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has unveiled the financial pyramid scheme, the organizers of which deceived more than 600,000 people and embezzled more than $250 million, the SBU reported on Thursday.

KYIV, Aug 28 – Minister of Infrastructure Vladyslav Krykliy and acting Under Secretary of the United States for International Trade Joseph C. Semsar have discussed further partnership between the countries to renew the rolling stock of Ukrzaliznytsia.

KYIV, Aug 29 - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has spoken with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy about U.S. concerns over China’s attempt to purchase a Ukrainian engine manufacturer, the State Department said on Saturday, RFE/RL reported.

KYIV, Aug 27 - The total amount of financial losses of Energoatom for the first half of the year was about UAH 10 billion, acting president of the company Petro Kotin has said.

KYIV, Aug 27 - ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih (Dnipropetrovsk region) plans to invest $700 million in the company in 2021-2024.

Mauro Longobardo, the CEO of the company, during a visit by the president of Ukraine to the enterprise with an American delegation led by U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun, presented a complex of continuous casting machines Nos. 2 and 3 at the production site.

KYIV, Aug 27 - The Ukrainian Association of Producers of Ferroalloys and Other Electrometallurgy Products (UkrFA), the Federation of Metallurgists of Ukraine and the Ukrcement association have asked parliamentarians to withdraw from Parliament draft law No. 3091 on state environmental control and start developing a new bill with the involvement of specialized associations, representatives of business entities and the public.

KYIV, Aug 27 - Alfa-Bank (Kyiv) has downgraded the forecast for the fall in the real gross domestic product of Ukraine (GDP) in 2020 to 3.5% from 2% (in the April forecast) and expects a further deterioration in 2021 at the level of 3.9%.