KYIV, June 8 – Bosch in Ukraine expects at least 15% growth in sales in 2018 compared with 2017, when the figure stood at EUR 74 million, growing by 5% on 2016, Director General of Robert Bosch Ltd. Vitaliy Bulda said.

KIEV, June 10 – The monetary base in Ukraine shrank by 0.2% in May, or UAH 0.74 billion, to UAH 329.62 billion, the National Bank of Ukraine reported.

KIEV, June 8 – Inflation in Ukraine slowed to 2.2% in May from 14% in April, 10.8% in March, 5.3% in February and 3.1% in January, the State Statistics Service said.

KIEV, June 10 - State Enterprise Research & Production Complex Photoprylad (Cherkasy) is reorienting supplies of its defense products from Russia to the European Union and the Middle East, said Photoprylad Director Valentyn Hordiyenko.

KIEV, June 7 – Ukraine has asked the World Bank to resume direct support to the country's budget, according to the government.

"The proposal was that [the World Bank] re-launch a project for direct budget support and raise limits of lending for the portfolio of projects in Ukraine," the press service said in a report about the Ukrainian side's proposals put forth during a meeting between Ukraine's First Vice Premier Serhiy Arbuzov and a World Bank delegation.

KIEV, June 7 – Proceeds from the excise tax on gasoline and diesel fuel to the national budget of Ukraine decreased by 30.3% in January-April compared to the same period in 2012, to UAH 2.388 billion, the Income and Tax Ministry reported.

KIEV, June 7 - The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a feasibility study for the modernization of the sixth and seventh power units of Sloviansk thermal power plant of energy generating company Donbasenergo for UAH 9.329 billion.

KIEV, June 7 – The losses of coal mines managed by the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry from coal production in January-May amounted to UAH 6.020 billion, up 37.7% up on the same period of 2012.

KIEV, June 10 – A search conducted by representatives of the investigation department of the district state tax service of the central office for servicing large taxpayers of the state tax service, which was conducted in the central office of Industrial and Distribution Systems (IDS, Kiev) on June 7 has effectively blocked company operations, lawyer Yevhen Solodko has said.

KIEV, June 10 – The IAEA expert mission for considering the reasons of the February 12 ceiling collapse at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant has finished its work.

According to a posting on the official Web site of the state-run specialized enterprise Chernobyl, at the final meeting the experts presented their preliminary conclusions and recommendations.