KIEV, July 5 - Ukraine’s output of berries increased over the past three years to 130,000 metric tons annually, boosting exports to the EU and the Middle East, UkrAgroConsult Director General Serhiy Feofilov said Tuesday.

KIEV, July 5 – Ukraine’s greenhouse gas emissions rose 7.7% on year in 2016 after the country was forced to switch from cleaner natural gas to dirtier sources of energy like coal, a senior official said Tuesday.

KIEV, July 6 - Ukraine increased by 5% on year imports of petroleum products to 3.34 million metric tons in January through June from 3.21 million mt in the same period a year ago, the State Fiscal Service reported Thursday.

KIEV, July 5 – Ukraine’s crippling banking crisis in 2014-2016, which was triggered by the war in Donbas, cost the country a whopping 38% of its gross domestic product, the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine said.

KIEV, July 5 – Japan's Mitsubishi Corporation and NIKO Group have created a joint venture MMC Ukraine LLC (Kiev) with 60% and 40% shares, respectively. The company is a new Mitsubishi car distributor in Ukraine.

KIEV, July 5 - The State Property Fund is considering the possibility of establishing a fund with external control in which minority stakes in power companies could be included, SPF head Ihor Bilous told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, July 3 - ConverDyn, an American company, is contemplating the potential for setting up a joint uranium hexafluoride production facility in Ukraine.

The likelihood of such cooperation was discussed between the U.S. company's representatives and the top managers of Nuclear Fuel state concern in Kiev in late June, the Ukrainian concern said in a press release.

KIEV, July 6 – Austrian financial institutions will be able to assist in the further implementation of Zaporizhia-based Zaporizhstal metallurgical mill's investment projects, in particular in the construction of a converter shop at the mill, the Ukrainian company reported.

LONDON, July 6 - Ukraine's largest pork producer, APK-Invest, continues to suffer huge losses to the ongoing conflict in the east, where its largest assets are located.

The company today issued a report pegging its direct losses from the conflict at UAH40 million ($1.8 million), Global Meat News reported.

KIEV, July 3 - An International Monetary Fund mission for the first review under a Stand-By Arrangement with Ukraine, which arrived in Kiev on June 24, has extended its work until July 9, the IMF Resident Representative Office in Ukraine said in a statement.