KYIV, Aug 28 - Ukraine in the current marketing year (2017/2018 MY, September-August) will reduce sugar exports by at least 25% compared to the previous MY, the National Association of Sugar Producers Ukrtsukor reports.

KYIV, Aug 29 – One of the essential factors of influencing the pace of the hryvnia exchange rate on the interbank currency market is the agribusiness "black" market, Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Oleh Churiy has said.

MOSCOW, Aug 29 - The District Court of Amsterdam by its decision dated May 30 ruled to seize the shares in the Blue Stream gas pipeline of Blue Stream Pipeline Company B.V. belonging to Gazprom under the lawsuit of Naftogaz Ukrayiny.

LONDON, Aug 29 – Transgaz, the operator of the gas transportation system of Romania, has stated it is mulling the possibility of building another interconnector connecting the country with Ukraine, which can be considered as an alternative for the Bulgaria-Romania-Hungary-Austria (BRUA) pipeline for gas exports from the Black Sea deposits.

KYIV, Aug 29 – Xoom, a subsidiary structure of the PayPal payment service, has launched a service of money transfer from the United States to Ukraine, the initiator of the group on the introduction of PayPal in Ukraine, Ilia Kenigshtein, said.

KYIV, Aug 29 - The Ukrainian government will send the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) a list of 19 legal entities that could be sanctioned for the construction of the Crimean Bridge.

KYIV, Aug 29 - Ukraine and Canada intend in the near future to start discussing the issue of expanding the Free Trade Agreement between the countries, Ukrainian Ambassador to Canada Andriy Shevchenko has said.

KYIV, Aug 30 – Ferrexpo Plc, which controls Ukraine’s Poltava and Yeristovo mining enterprises, could extend the amount of the pre-export finance credit facility taken in 2017 from $195 million to $500 million, extending the tenor from 3 to 4 years.

KYIV, Aug 30 – The State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPF) sold 33.3% of shares in Ukrainian-Kazakh-Russian joint venture for nuclear fuel production at an open auction for UAH 47.8 million, which is 51.9 times more than the starting price, to Wise Trade LLC.

KYIV, Aug 29 - State-owned Ukrainian rocket maker Pivdenmash is preparing a new batch of engines for the European launch vehicle (LV) Vega to ship to the European partners, the press service of the enterprise has reported.