KYIV, Nov 8 – The availability of open disputes between Russia's Gazprom and Naftogaz Ukrainy, the absence of a contract on gas supply between them for the period starting from 2020 are invented problems for signing a new gas transit contract, Naftogaz Executive Officer Yuriy Vitrenko has said.

KHARKIV, Nov 8 – The Ukroboronprom state concern has proposed to the Ukrainian president to summon a meeting of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) of Ukraine devoted to the financial healing of the defense industry.

KYIV, Nov 8 – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has called on investors to invest in Ukrainian people, who are the main capital of the country, and reiterated that he personally guarantees protection to each investor.

KYIV, Nov 8 – The founder of Alibaba Group Jack Ma has said at the Kyiv International Economic Forum that he fell for Ukraine a long time ago and sees a large potential for development.

KIEV, Nov. 10 - World Bank experts, namely head of the working group David Bernstein and financial sector specialist Laura Pop, who are now on a mission in Ukraine, at a meeting with experts of the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) have discussed the "roadmap" of cooperation for 2017 in the issue of improving the system of electronic declarations.

KIEV, Nov. 8 – Germany will provide a loan of up to EUR 32.5 million to Ukraine for up to 30 years with a grace period of 10 years under the second phase of the project on increase of energy efficiency in power transmission (modernization of transformer substations) by the end of this year, the Economic Development and Trade Ministry of Ukraine reported on Tuesday.

KIEV, Nov. 9 – Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers at a government meeting on Wednesday authorized the reorganization of subsidiary Gaz Ukrayiny by incorporating it into its parent structure, Naftogaz Ukrayiny.

KIEV, Nov. 9 - Ukraine in January-October reduced banana imports by 34.4% compared to the same period in 2014, to 114,740 tons.

According to customs statistics made public by the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine, in monetary terms imports fell by 44.8%, to $97.84 million.

KIEV, Nov. 9 – The Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry is ready to transfer Ukrspyrt state enterprise to the State Property Fund for privatization by the end of the year, Minister Oleksiy Pavlenko wrote on his Facebook page.

KIEV, Nov. 9 – Wholesale sugar prices in Ukraine grew by 12% over the past month, Derzhzovnishinform state enterprise announced.

The company said that the upward trends are linked to groundless speculation on a possible sugar shortage this season and real growth in the cash cost of sugar due to the hryvnia devaluation.