KIEV, July 27 – Ukrainian banks lost UAH 81.974 billion, including UAH 30.578 billion by operating banks, in H1, the National Bank of Ukraine said in a report on its website.

KIEV, July 27 – The National Bank of Ukraine plans to lower the use of cash by reducing the upper limit of cash payments between individuals by two-thirds, to UAH 50,000, the regulator said on its website.

KIEV, July 27 – The use of the hryvnia in trade deals between Ukraine and Belarus will be extended, as requested by Belarus.

KIEV, July 24 - Arterium Corporation does not rule out a collapse of the pharmaceutical market if restrictions on gas consumption are put in place for pharmaceutical manufacturers and there is the introduction of a special period of the fuel and energy complex.

MOSCOW, July 24 - Russia is banning imports of all plant-based products carried in hold luggage and hand luggage or sent by post from Ukraine effective July 28, Rosselkhoznadzor, the Russian agricultural watchdog, said.

KIEV, July 25 – The National Bank of Ukraine starting July 24 has introduced an emergency regime of operation for banks in Luhansk, Donetsk regions and Crimea.

KIEV, July 25 – Ukraine will carry out all of the tasks necessary for the signing of the Association Agreement with the European Union, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Leonid Kozhara said.

KIEV, July 25 – The first trials of the new Korsar anti-tank missile system have been conducted at a firing range near Kiev, Segodnya newspaper reported.

KIEV, July 26 - Supplies of foreign weapons for a new corvette of the Ukrainian Navy, the construction of which has begun at Black Sea Shipyard (Mykolaiv), are expected in 2015-2016, the Defense Ministry reported.

KIEV, July 28 - Sberbank of Russia has confirmed information that the bank has provided a $376 million financing to the State Road Service of Ukraine (Ukravtodor).

"Sberbank and Ukravtodor are considering the deal as an important step in cooperation between Russian and Ukrainian companies.