KIEV, Jan. 12 - The only obstacle for receiving the new tranche of EUR 600 million of macrofinancial assistance from the European Union by Ukraine will be overcome when the country lifts its ban on exports of round timber, said Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze, deputy prime minister for European and Euro-Atlantic integration.

KIEV, Jan. 12 – Holders of eurobonds of nationalized PrivatBank (Dnipro) seek to challenge the forced exchange of their securities to additionally issued shares in the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), Bloomberg has reported, referring to well-informed sources.

KIEV, Jan. 12 – The decision of the board of the National Bank of Ukraine to put Platinum Bank on the list of insolvent banks could be considered the political bankruptcy of President Petro Poroshenko, according to MP Serhiy Taruta.

KIEV, Jan. 6 - The rise in industrial prices in Ukraine in 2015 slowed down to 25.4% against 31.8% in 2014, the State Statistics Service reported.

KIEV, Jan. 6 – Inflation in Ukraine slowed to 0.7% in December 2015 from 2% in November, the State Statistics Service reported on Wednesday.

KIEV, Jan. 11 – The medium-term priorities of the Ukrainian defense and industrial complex is restructuring, a switch to NATO standards, boosting military and technical cooperation, implementation of the imports substitution program and mastering of new sectors, including cybersecurity, according to Ukroboronprom State Concern CEO Roman Romanov.

KIEV, Jan. 11 – Analysts from public institutions and non-governmental experts within the consensus forecast in December 2015 improved the forecast for the growth of Ukraine's real gross domestic product in 2016 by 0.1 percentage points compared to the September estimates, to 1%.

KIEV, Jan. 8 – Ukrainian coal mining enterprises in 2014 saw a 22.4% decline in production of raw coal, to 64.976 million tons, according to rough estimates, the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry said.

KIEV, Jan. 8 – British-based JKX Oil & Gas plc has decided to suspend its 2015 program of capital investment in Ukrainian assets due to increased royalties and limitations on gas sales to industrial consumers, JKX said in a statement on the London Stock Exchange.

KIEV, Jan. 12 – After the signing of a contract on the supply of coal to Ukraine from South Africa, approved by Director of state enterprise Ukrinterenergo Volodymyr Zinevych, the state saw a loss of over UAH 846 million, the Prosecutor General's Office reported.