KYIV, Dec 11 - The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) expects the consumer price index in 2017 to grow more than the forecasted earlier 12.2%, according to the central bank's website.

KYIV, Dec 12 – An explosion at a gas hub in Baumgarten (Austria) would result in a temporary decline in gas transit across Ukraine via Slovakia, the press service of public joint-stock company Ukrtransgaz has reported.

KIEV, Dec. 9 - Ukroboronprom State Concern in 2015 ranked 81st in the in SIPRI (the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) annual ranking of the top 100 global defense companies.

KIEV, Dec. 9 - S&P Global Ratings has affirmed its 'B-/B' long- and short-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings.

"The outlooks on the long-term foreign and local currency ratings are stable. At the same time, we affirmed the 'uaBBB-' Ukraine national scale rating," the agency said.

KIEV, Dec. 9 – The State Space Agency of Ukraine (SSAU) seeks to ensure the practical implementation of the project on the creation of the Cyclone 4 launch vehicle complex with a new foreign partner to replace Brazil that left the project in 2015 at the final stage of the project.

KIEV, Dec. 12 – DCH Group of Kharkiv businessman Oleksandr Yaroslavsky has detailed its plans to create a consortium for the purchase of the Odessa Port-Side Plant.

KIEV, Dec. 12 – ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih CEO Paramjit Kahlon has said that various agencies are systemically pressing on the company, mainly law enforcement agencies, with a proposal to "cooperate" in exchange for the absence of unlawful inspections and questioning of top managers.

KIEV, Dec. 13 - Ukraine may be able to permanently eliminate imports of natural gas by 2020 through energy conservation measures and tapping new domestic extraction projects, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said Tuesday.

KIEV, Dec. 13 - Ukraine has discovered a major natural gas deposit offshore in the Black Sea near Odessa as part of its bid to increase domestic gas output, Mykola Boyarkin, the acting head of the State Geological Service, said Tuesday.

KIEV, Dec. 13 – Lower gas pressure maintained by Russia's Gazprom again has been recorded at the entry points to the Ukrainian gas transport system from the direction of Russia, state-owned Ukrtransgaz said.