KIEV, Aug. 7 – The extension of U.S. sanctions against Russia and the inclusion of the structures of Russia's Vnesheconombank into the sanction list will not impact the business operations of Vnesheconombank's Ukrainian subsidiary, Kiev-based Prominvestbank, Prominvestbank said on its website.

KIEV, Aug. 7 – UniCredit Group expects to sell its subsidiary in Ukraine, Kiev-based Ukrsotsbank, by the end of the current year, Deutsche Welle reported, with reference to UniCredit Bank Austria AG Chief Executive Officer Willibald Cernko.

KIEV, Aug. 6 – The European Business Association has called on the Ukrainian authorities to put an end to illegal operations on the grain market, specifically to stop companies buying grain with cash in foreign currency.

ASTANA, Aug. 7 – Ukraine is currently assessing commercial offers from Kazakh coal producers in terms of prospective coal shipments, Kazakhstan's energy ministry told Interfax.

KIEV, Aug. 7 – Ukraine may return to the idea of creating a state-run titanium holding, according to Adomas Audickas, senior adviser to the country's Economic Development and Trade Minister and leader of the ministry's State-Owned Enterprises Reform taskforce.

KIEV, Aug. 7 - Mykola Kulbida, head of the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Center, has proposed raising a government-secured loan from the World Bank for the technical and technological re-equipment of the Hydrometeorological Service.

ZAPORIZHIA, Aug. 7 – An attempt has been made at the Zaporizhia customs service to import a Yak-40 aircraft with a declared value of about UAH 500,000, while the real price of the aircraft was 12 times higher - about UAH 6 million, the customs service reported.

KIEV, Aug. 8 – Kiev-based Oranta National Joint-Stock Insurance Company announced it will take action in the High Court in London against the organizers of a raider attack on the company.

KIEV, Aug. 7 – The Energy and Coal Industry Ministry has proposed the incorporation of Eastern Mining and Processing Plant state enterprise (VostGOK, Zhovti Vody, Dnipropetrovsk region) and other nuclear fuel cycle enterprises.

KIEV, Aug. 9 – Over 10 companies have expressed their desire to participate in an investment tender to build a liquefied natural gas terminal, Vladyslav Kaskiv, head of Ukraine’s State Agency for Investment and National Projects. said.