KYIV, July 30 – The legal merger of Alfa-Bank Ukraine and Ukrsotsbank will be completed in H1 2019, Alfa Group CEO in Ukraine and Board Chairman of Ukrsotsbank Ivan Svitek said.

KYIV, July 27 - Firefly Aerospace Inc., a private American developer of rocket and space equipment, ties prospects and filling cooperation with the Ukrainian rocket and space industry with its reform and the abolition of existing restrictions on work of private companies in the space sector of Ukraine.

KYIV, July 27 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny intends in August to increase the price of domestic natural gas purchases from private gas producers in Ukraine by 6% compared to the July offer, to UAH 8,088 from UAH 7,629 per 1,000 cubic meters (excluding VAT), the press service of the company has reported.

KYIV, July 30 - Atlantic Agro Holding ApS sold its agricultural and mixed feed business in Ukraine for $97.5 million to Eridon, a Ukrainian agriculture group, EY Ukraine, which acted as a financial advisor in the transaction, reported.

KYIV, July 30 – The National Commission for Energy and Housing Utilities Services Regulation (NCER) has postponed the switch to daily gas balancing for two months, until October 1, 2018.

KYIV, July 30 - The working group on drawing up conditions for a tender to select partners for the management of the gas transportation system (GTS) of Ukraine will continue its work after the government makes a decision on the model and terms of the unbundling of national company Naftogaz Ukrayiny.

KIEV, July 27 – Ukraine may be able to hold tenders to sell controlling stake in power companies and Odesa Port-Side Plant late 2017 or early 2018, Deputy Head of the State Property Fund (SPF) Yuriy Nikitin said.

KIEV, July 27 – Total assets of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) as of July 1, 2017 amounted to UAH 973.316 billion. It is 3.48% up compared with the figure as of January 1, 2017, the central bank has reported in the Uriadovy Kurier government's newspaper.

KIEV, July 27 - Wage arrears in Ukraine in June increased by 3.1% to UAH 2.392 billion as of July 1, the State Statistics Service said. The arrears were up 33.6% year-to-date.

KIEV, July 28 – The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) is investigating about 400 corruption cases, which the judiciary branch is not ready to consider, Director of the NABU Artem Sytnyk said.