LONDON, Sept. 12 ??“ Shares of JKX Oil & Gas, a small British-registered oil company operating in Ukraine, dropped on Tuesday after the company reported that its first well had failed to encounter hydrocarbons.

KIEV, Sept. 12 - Ukraine plans to spend $4.5 billion to modernize and reconstruct its Soviet-era network of natural gas pipelines that supply Europe with much of its gas, Ukraine's state-owned gas company Naftogaz said Tuesday.

KIEV, Sept. 12 ??“ Ukraine on Wednesday will try to secure extra supplies of natural gas from Russia at affordable prices in the face of shortages that may strike the country as soon as next month.

KIEV, Sept. 12 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the national oil and gas company, completed a pipeline link to Poland that promises to boost gas supplies.

KIEV, Sept. 12 - Myronivsky Khliboprodukt, a large Ukrainian poultry producer working under the Nasha Riaba trademark, and Commerzbank AG of Germany have signed a framework agreement for a ?25 mln loan.

KYIV, Aug 11 – According to the results of January-June this year, Metinvest reduced steel production by 45% compared to the same period last year, to 2.412 million tons, according to a press release from the parent company Metinvest B.V. on Wednesday.

KYIV, Aug 11 – Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has exposed the management of the Ukrbud construction corporation to millions of violations during the construction of radioactive waste storage facilities on the territory of the Chornobyl NPP exclusion zone.

KYIV, Aug 11 – Ukrainian Coke-Chemical Plants in January-July this year have reduced the production of metallurgical coke with 6% moisture content by 6% compared to the same period last year - to 5.63 million tons.

KYIV, Aug 11 – Ukrainians should be able to buy housing on credit at affordable interest rates – at least 10% per annum, as bank mortgage rates, which have existed so far, are simply unaffordable for many Ukrainian families, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

KYIV, Aug 11 – Head of the State Property Fund (SPF) Dmytro Sennychenko has announced the Fund's readiness to begin the process of privatization of objects of the State Enterprise Ukrspyrt, the department has already received 12 proposals for privatization.