KYIV, Aug 13 – The Cabinet of Ministers has transferred almost 200 state property objects to the State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPF), which will allow starting the process of their privatization.

KYIV, Aug 13 – Swedish Embracer Group AB Holding ("Embracer"), through its wholly-owned subsidiary Saber Interactive, has entered into an agreement to acquire 100 percent of Kyiv/Malta-based 4A Games Limited ("4A Games") famous for Metro 2033, Metro: Last Light, Metro Exodus games.

KYIV, Aug 12 – Kyivstar and 1+1 media note a 35% increase in activity on the Kyivstar TV platform in the first half of 2020.

According to the press service of the mobile operator, while the growth of the audience interest in January-March was gradual, the activity sharply increased by 20% in April.

KYIV, Aug 12 – Ostchem Retail, the retail business of the Ostchem holding, part of Group DF owned by Dmytro Firtash and dealing with nitrogen business, has signed an agreement for the 2020-2021 marketing year with six Ukrainian banks on target crediting for the purchase of nitrogen fertilizers by agrarians.

KYIV, Aug 12 – The Kyiv Pivnichny Economic Court of Appeals on August 10 granted the appeal of the state-owned financial institution Oschadbank (Kyiv) and rejected the claim of Sberbank of Russia to cancel the Sberbank trademark, the intellectual property rights to which belong to Oschadbank in the territory of Ukraine, according to the website of the state-owned bank.

KYIV, Aug 12 – Ukraine boosted its underground gas stocks 1.9 times or 7.874 billion cubic meters (bcm), to 16.619 bcm between April 4, when the last heating season ended, and August 10, according to preliminary data from Ukrtransgaz.

KYIV, Aug. 13 - The Ukrainian Grain Association (UGA) forecast growth in grain and oilseeds production in the country in the 2019/20 agricultural year to 95.2 million tons, up from the previous forecast of 94.7 million tons.

KYIV, Aug 13 – Ukraine's railway operator, Ukrzaliznytsia, has completed the first stage of negotiations with GE Transportation of the United States about the acquisition of the next batch of locomotives, the company said in a statement on its website.

KYIV, Aug 13 – Ukraine in January-July 2019 decreased exports of ferroalloys 2.7% compared to the same period last year, to 533,217 tons.

According to customs statistics made public by the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine, exports of ferroalloys in monetary terms fell by 5.8%, to $585.020 million.

KYIV, Aug 13 – A group to negotiate extension of Russian gas transit via Ukraine will be set up after Ukraine forms a new government but it would be irresponsible not to have a Plan B in case no agreements are reached, Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Secretary Oleksandr Danyliuk said in a statement.