KIEV, Sept. 5 ??“ The Cabinet of Ministers has ordered the Economy, Agriculture, Foreign and Health ministries to hold talks with Russia to remove the ban on Ukrainian-produced meat and dairy supplies to Russia.

KIEV, Sept. 6 - Ukraine accumulated about 21 billion cu m of natural gas in its underground storage facilities as of Sept. 5, up from 19.9 Bcm as of September 1, the energy and fuel ministry said Wednesday.

KIEV, Sept. 6 - Energy and Fuel Minister Yuriy Boyko will rush to Moscow on Thursday for talks with Russia over natural gas supplies following a Russian-Turkmen deal that would most likely boost gas prices for Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 6 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the oil and gas company, plans to shortly acquire a 50% stake in Kalmoil, a small regional Russian oil company, Naftogaz Ukrayiny Chairman Oleksiy Ivchenko said Tuesday. Naftogaz planned to spend $10 million late last year to acquire the stake.

KYIV, Aug 2 – In Ukraine, the revenue of restaurant establishments in January-June 2024 showed a 16% increase, and the average bill increased by 13% compared to the same period in 2023 due to higher prices, to UAH 148, Poster POS CEO Rodion Yeroshek reported.

KYIV, Aug 2 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) worsened the forecast for electricity deficit in 2024-2026 in the inflation report for July.

In particular, the deficit estimate for 2024 has been worsened from 5% to more than 7%, for 2025 – from 4% to almost 8%. At the same time, for 2026 it is forecast to be close to 5%, whereas previously no deficit was expected.

KYIV, Aug 2 – The business confidence indicator in Ukraine's industry dropped by 1.7 percentage points (pp) in July 2024 compared to June 2024, reaching -8.7%. In the manufacturing sector, it decreased by 1.8 pp to -7.4%, according to the State Statistics Service.

KYIV, Aug 4 – The volume of emergency restoration work performed by thermal generation facilities is only 1.6% of the amount of damage inflicted by Russian strikes, in Ukrenergo this figure is 7%, follows from the data of Chairman of the National Energy and Utilities Regulatory Commission of Ukraine (NEURC) Konstiantyn Uschapovsky.

KYIV, Aug 5 - Ukraine’s state energy firm Naftogaz said it would not resume buying natural gas from Russia, suspended since late 2015, until Moscow offered it competitive prices and conditions, Reuters reported.

KYIV, Aug 4 – Dniprovsky Metallurgical Plant (DMZ, former Evraz-DMZ), a member of DCH Steel Group, owned by Oleksandr Yaroslavsky, following the launch of blast furnace and rolling shops No. 1 and No. 2 in June of the current year after maintenance works since October 2019, continues to restore and increase the production.