KIEV, Jan. 6 – The Individuals' Deposit Guarantee Fund tentatively earned around UAH 3 billion from selling property of insolvent banks in 2016, Director of the consolidated sale and asset management department of the fund Yulia Bereschenko said.

KIEV, Jan. 6 – Cutting the upper limit for cash payments with participation of individuals starting Jan. 4 to UAH 50,000 over 24 hours will help to bring the Ukrainian economy from the shadows, according to the Economic Development and Trade Ministry.

KIEV, Jan. 4 – Ukraine's natural gas reserves at the beginning of 2016 totaled 13.995 billion cubic meters (bcm), whereas a year earlier gas stocks in underground storage facilities amounted to 11.463 bcm.

KIEV, Jan. 4 – Embargo on some goods from Russia introduced by the Ukrainian government in response to the Russian sanctions will be in effect from January 10 until at least August 5, 2016.

KIEV, Jan. 4 – The unilateral revocation of the free trade area with Ukraine by Russia and partial food embargo would result in the reduction of Ukrainian export to the country by slightly over $1 billion or around 1% of GDP, Mykola Ryzhenkov of the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Jan. 4 – The deep and comprehensive free trade area between Ukraine and the European Union took effect on January 1, 2016, although it is not expected that a large inflow of European goods to the Ukrainian market will be seen, said Deputy Economic Development and Trade Minister Natalia Mykolska.

KIEV, Jan. 8 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development may lend $30 million to Ukrainian-British JV Nyva Pereyaslavshchyny LLC in Kiev region for the expansion of its production facilities.

KIEV, Jan. 8 – The Cabinet of Ministers has recommended the National Commission for the Regulation of Housing and Utilities Services and local authorities to revise tariffs for heat and hot water from January 1, 2014, taking into account the new gas prices.

KIEV, Jan. 8 – Industrial prices in Ukraine in December rose by 0.7% after falling in November by 1.3%, the State Statistics Service reported.

According to the service, in annual terms (compared to the same month in 2012) industrial prices in the country also increased by 1.7%.

KIEV, Jan. 9 - Ukraine suspended imports of natural gas from Europe after Russia had agreed to lower its gas prices by 33% in January, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytskiy said Thursday.