KIEV, Aug. 6 – The staff of the Chernivtsi TBA Regional Television Channel has sent an open letter to Head of the EU Delegation to Ukraine Jan Tombinski with the request to help protect the channel, which they say the authorities are trying to destroy.

KIEV, Aug. 6 - Trans-Ukraine LLC plans to build a complex for the transshipment of liquefied petroleum gas, diesel fuel and other goods near state enterprise Oktiabrsk specialized seaport (Mykolaiv region).

KIEV, Aug. 6 - Severodonetsk Azot (Luhansk region), part of the Ostchem chemical holding of Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash, has finished the scheduled overhaul of an ammonia, potassium and sodium nitrate production shop, Ostchem reported on Wednesday.

KIEV, Aug. 6 – A group of pro-government and opposition MP belonging to the parliamentary committee for tax and customs policies, have proposed that from January 1, 2014 the excise duty on alcohol and tobacco be increased, in part for the purpose of financing the Okhmatdyt National Children's Hospital.

KIEV, Aug. 6 – The fall in industrial prices in Ukraine accelerated to 2.9% in July, compared to 2.7% in June, the State Statistics Service reported on Tuesday.

KIEV, Aug. 7 - Ukraine’s largest petrochemical company KarpatNaftoKhim, owned by Russian oil producer Lukoil, plans to resume operation in the middle of September, the company’s press service said in a statement Wednesday.

KIEV, Aug. 6 – Industrial prices in Ukraine in July fell by 2.9%, and as a result their growth in annual terms slowed to 1.4%, down from 4.5% in June 2012, according to the State Statistics Service.

Industrial prices in January-June 2012 grew by 2.6%.

KIEV, Aug. 6 - Ukraine saw 0.2% deflation in July, the State Statistics Service reported.

Deflation in Ukraine in 2012 was observed for the third month in a row: in May and June the figure was 0.3%.

KIEV, Aug. 7 – Almost unrestricted access to the gas transport system (GTS) of Ukraine will be opened up via the reorganization and privatization of Ukrtransgaz, a subsidiary of national joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrayiny, according to a newspaper article published this week.

KIEV, Aug. 7 – The number of unprofitable banks in Ukraine in Q2 grew to 19, or to 11% of the total number of operating credit and financial institutions in the country, the National Bank of Ukraine reported.