KYIV, July 4 – The hryvnia will continue strengthening in the short term, according to bankers polled by Interfax-Ukraine.

"It is likely that soon we will see UAH 25.5 per $1," senior analyst at Raiffeisen Bank Aval Mykhailo Rebryk has said.

LONDON, July 6 – Canada will continue supporting Ukraine politically and economically after the free trade agreement between the two countries comes into force in less than a month, Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said Thursday.

KIEV, July 6 – Sanofi S.A., a French multinational pharmaceutical company, said Thursday operation of its Ukrainian subsidiary is in jeopardy following an alleged raider attack that had defrauded the firm of UAH 42 million.

KIEV, July 5 - The capacity of the berry market in Ukraine is estimated at 190,000-200,000 tons, or more than $250-300 million, while its annual growth rate is 2-4%, UkrAgroConsult CEO Serhiy Feofilov said at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, July 6 – Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers, in response to Russia's prolonging its food embargo until the end of 2017, has extended reciprocal measures for the same period of time.

KIEV, July 7 – Hearings by the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce in litigation between national joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrayiny and Russia's OJSC Gazprom over the natural gas supply and transit contracts signed early 2009 will start late September and late November or early December, respectively, Naftogaz Ukrayiny Chairman Andriy Kobolev said.

KIEV, July 7 - Huta Stali Czestochowa steel works (Poland) belonging to Industrial Union of Donbas (ISD) via subsidiary ISD Polska on June 1 resumed electric furnace steelmaking after the idle period started on November 2015 due to the stoppage of slab suppliers from Alchevsk Steel Works.

MOSCOW, July 7 – Energoatom has resumed payments to TVEL for fresh nuclear fuel, a source in TVEL has told Interfax.

Late June TVEL Vice President Alexei Grigoryev told reporters that TVEL continues supplies of fuel to Ukrainian nuclear power plants, while the company does not pay for it.

KIEV, July 7 - Ukraine is seeking a bigger size loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development for natural gas imports, a senior Naftogaz Ukrayiny official said Thursday.

KIEV, July 7 – Russia quoted an attractive price for its natural gas in the third quarter, but Gazprom’s refusal to amend a gas contract means Ukraine won’t be able to buy it, Andriy Kobolev, the head of Naftogaz Ukrayiny, said Thursday.