KYIV, Aug 8 - Ukraine has already harvested 12.5 million tons of wheat with record yields, but due to weather conditions, 60% of the crop will be sold as fodder, which is twice as much as last year, the Pusk analytical agency, created within the framework of the Ukrainian Agrarian Council, said.

KYIV, Aug 8 – Energoatom President Petro Kotin hopes for a successful completion of negotiations with Bulgaria on the purchase of two nuclear power units, which are planned to be installed at the sites of reactors three and four of the Khmelnytsky NPP.

KYIV, Aug 8 – The opportunity to use all three seaports of Odesa within the framework of the Istanbul Grain Initiative will help increase transshipment volumes to three or five vessels a day within two weeks, Infrastructure Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov has said.

KYIV, Aug 7 – The initial registration of electric vehicles in Ukraine in January-July increased by 53% compared to the same period in 2018, to 4,035 units (3,742 cars and 293 commercial vehicles), the Ukrautoprom association reports.

KYIV, Aug 7 – The German low-cost bus carrier FlixBus will develop passenger transportation in Ukraine together with Gunsel, the company reported.

KYIV, Aug 7 – Frontera Resources Ukraine LLC on August 7 filed a lawsuit to Kyiv's District Administrative Court against the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry of Ukraine, as well as the interdepartmental commission for organizing the signing and implementation of production sharing agreements (PSA), in which it demands to cancel the results of the tender for the development of the Dolphin hydrocarbon section on the shelf of the Black Sea.

KYIV, Aug 7 – Interpipe Holdings Limited (Cyprus) is seeking to issue bonds for a nominal amount of up to $430 million with an interest rate of up to 10.25% per annum, the company reported.

KYIV, Aug 8 – Ukrnaftoburinnia gas production company in January-June 2019 saw a 51% rise in gas production year-over-year, to 353 million cubic meters (mcm), and a 47% rise in oil and condensate production, to 44,000 tons, the company's press service has reported.

KYIV, Aug 8 – Ukrnafta has resumed production at 47 wells of Lukvynske and Hvizdetske fields in Ivano-Frankivsk region after forced stop on August 2 because of absence of rail tanks for oil transportation.

MOSCOW, Aug. 8 - Gazprom reduced the volume of gas it exports to Europe via Ukraine and Belarus at the beginning of the current week, according to data from European gas transmission operators.