KYIV, June 6 – The likelihood of a risk of synchronous step of nonresidents to sell government domestic loan bonds of Ukraine is absent, as well as the significant influence of this factor on the currency market, Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Yakiv Smolii said.

KYIV, June 7 – Some 41% of Ukrainians will use an opportunity of tax evasion, while 38% of Ukrainian citizens would not take this step, according to a poll conducted under the USAID Financial Sector Transportation (FST) Project.

KYIV, June 6 – Ukraine in January-May of this year increased imports of coal and anthracite by 42.9% (by 2.777 million tons) compared to the same period in 2017, to 9.246 million tons.

KYIV, June 7 - Ukraine increased imports of crude oil by 36.8% or 102,260 tons in January-May 2018 year-over-year, to 380,196 tons.

KYIV, June 7 - Ukraine in January-May 2018 imported 2.72 million tons of petroleum products (foreign trade code 2710 – petrol, diesel fuel, fuel oil, jet fuel, etc.), which is 2.8% less than in January-May 2017 (2.799 million tons).

KYIV, June 7 – ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih employees insist on continuation of efforts at conciliation irrespective of rulings of Kyiv's district administrative court in a claim of the enterprise's administration regarding a ban of the National Mediation and Conciliation Service (NMCS) and other authorities to hold talks and make decisions in a collective labor dispute between employees and the employer.

KYIV, June 7 – The issues of continuing cooperation of the World Bank with Kyiv city and the implementation of projects to develop transport infrastructure, logistics of urban transport operation, energy saving technologies were discussed by Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitchko and Vice President of the World Bank Cyril Muller at a meeting in Washington.

KYIV, June 8 – Drought in southern, central and eastern regions of Ukraine could result in the loss of near 50% of grain harvest, the press service of the Ukrainian Agrarian Council (UAC) reported.

KYIV, June 8 – UDP (Kyiv) from the UFuture investment group has arranged a joint project to expand Dymerka solar power plant (Kyiv region) from 6 MW to 57.6 MW with Spain's ACCIONA Energia Global, the press service of UDP reported on Friday.

KYIV, June 8 – Percent of Ukrainians who do not trust banks, according to the results of 2017, is 53%, while in 2015 it was 19%.

This is evidenced by the results of a survey on consumer awareness of the system of guaranteeing deposits of individuals conducted by the USAID project "Transformation of the financial sector" commissioned by the Fund for Guaranteeing Individual Deposits.