KYIV, April 11 – The grain harvest in Ukraine may grow from 61.3 million tons in 2017 to 62 million tons in 2018, according to the UkrAgroConsult consulting agency.

KYIV. April 11 – NJSC Naftogaz Ukrayiny is ready to prove the feasibility of gas transit shipments through the country's gas transportation system (GTS), Naftogaz CEO Andriy Kobolev has said.

KYIV, April 11 – Transit of 10-15 billion cubic meters (bcm) of Russian gas a year via Ukraine to Europe starting from 2020 will be unprofitable, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Ihor Nasalyk said.

KYIV, April 11 – Ukraine will seek to negotiate removal of duties on imports of aluminum and steel by the U.S., Natalia Mykolska, Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade, said Thursday.

KYIV, April 12 – Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman asked the Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) and the Special Anti-corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) to verify media reports that the State Service for Geology and Deposits of Ukraine allegedly issued licenses to develop lithium fields to persons affiliated with power without holding tenders and using uncompetitive principles.

KYIV, April 12 – Ukraine plans on April 27 to approve a list of large state entities with assets worth over UAH 250 million for the privatization in 2018, acting Head of the State Property Fund (SPF) Vitaliy Trubarov said.

NEW YORK, April 12 – The U.S. government will probably add more Russian billionaires to financial sanctions list and make Russian assets “uninvestable” if Moscow continues its aggressive policy, a person familiar with the matter said Thursday.

KIEV, April 11 – DTEK Krymenergo has started the procedure for settling an investment dispute with Russia under an agreement on mutual protection of investment signed by the Ukrainian and Russian governments.

KIEV, April 11 – Ukraine's State Property Fund has said that Odessa Port-Side Plant could be privatized by late 2017.

"We have repeatedly launched preparations for the privatization of this facility. We have launched the process. I think that in H2 2017, at the end of the year, it could be sold," SPF head Ihor Bilous said at a briefing in Kiev on Tuesday.

KIEV, April 12 - Money supply in March grew by 1.3%, to UAH 1.074 trillion, according to the preliminary monetary and credit statistics posted on the website of the National Bank of Ukraine.