KIEV, Oct. 7 – Concentration in the banking sector has mildly increased due to the decline in the number of credit and financial institutions, according to a debut report of the National Bank of Ukraine – the Banking Sector Review – covering the period of January-August 2016.

KIEV, Oct. 7 – Foreign investors who buy distressed assets have shown interest in Ukraine as improved operation of the Deposit Guarantee Fund and judicial system activity on the domestic market of distressed assets grow, said Makar Paseniuk, the founder of ICU Investment Group.

SIMFEROPOL, Oct. 7 - Crimean gas company Chornomornaftogaz plans to drill two new wells at the Odeske field on the Black Sea before the end of January in a bid to boost gas production 7%-10%, Sergei Beim, the company's CEO, said.

KIEV, Oct. 8 - Two private Ukrainian energy companies will import up to 4 million metric tons of coal from Russia through the end of the year, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Prodan said Wednesday.

LONDON, Oct. 9 - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development said it had identified 10 agribusiness firms prepared to invest $1 billion in Ukraine in the next year, part of a strategy to help its economy recover from conflict with pro-Russian rebels, Reuters reported.

YALTA, Oct. 8 - Crimea's Chornomornaftogaz (Black Sea Oil & Gas) could sell gas that it produces on the Black Sea shelf to Ukraine, once production has been ramped up by a planned 20%, the breakaway republic's fuel and energy minister, Sergei Yegorov, told reporters.

KIEV, Oct. 8 - Group DF companies, which own the gas in Ukrtransgaz's underground storage facilities, will file a lawsuit against the September 29 Cabinet resolution prohibiting mineral fertilizer producers from using gas from underground storage or domestic production until the end of the current heating season.

KIEV, Oct. 9 - Ukraine suspended power exports to Belarus on October 1 amid looming shortage of power for domestic consumers, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Prodan said Thursday.

MINSK, Oct. 7 – Ukraine and Belarus have agreed to implement a project on the joint production of farm equipment, Belarus Prime Minister Mikhail Miasnikovich has said on Monday during a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Mykola Azarov.

KIEV, Oct. 8 – The Foreign Ministry has stated that it is aware of attempts to provide Russia's Black Sea Fleet with new arms and called on Russian servicemen to act strictly in line with current Ukrainian legislation.