KIEV, June 3 – The key expectations of the European Commission towards Ukraine are linked to the quick reform of the energy market and the adoption of laws on the electricity market and the national regulator, as well as the continuation of the gas market reform, DTEK CEO Maksym Tymchenko said after a meeting with European Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic this week in Brussels.

KIEV, June 3 – Ukraine has exported 1.637 million tons of wheat to the European Union since the start of the current agricultural year (July 2015 – June 2016), Ukrainian Trade Representative Natalia Mykolska wrote on her Facebook page.

KIEV, June 2 - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has lowered its long-term corporate credit rating on Ukrainian iron ore producer Ferrexpo PLC to 'CCC' from 'CCC+.'

KIEV, June 4 – City Transport Group (CTG), the managing company of Lviv Bus Plants LLC, retains its plans to bring upgraded bus models to the market and plans to adapt production to new EU ecology and passenger safety standards.

KIEV, June 3 – Ukraine will create public joint-stock companies Ukrainian GTS and Ukrainian Gas Storage Facilities on the basis of Ukrtransgaz, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said in Parliament.

SIMFEROPOL/KIEV, June 5 – The occupation authorities in Crimea have transferred the property of State Savings Bank of Ukraine (Oschadbank) on the territory of the peninsula to the management by the autonomous non-profit organization Depositor Protection Fund, which will settle compensation payments to the Crimean clients of the bank.

KIEV, June 3 – In 2012 the highest air pollution levels were registered in five cities and towns of Ukraine - Odessa, Horlivka, Armiansk, Sloviansk, and Dniprodzerzhynsk.

KIEV, June 3 – Emissions of contaminants from stationary sources into the atmosphere through January-March 2013 dropped by 6.65% year-over-year, to 55.183 million tons, the State Statistics Service reported.

KIEV, June 3 - Fuhrlander Wind Technology LLC (Kramatorsk, Donetsk region) will supply 22 wind turbines rated at 2 MW each for the construction of Kazakhstan's first wind power plant, CEO of Wind Farms of Ukraine managing company Vladyslav Yeremenko has told reporters.

KIEV, June 3 - The Cabinet of Ministers intends in the near future to set requirements to ensure a certain degree of car production localization if car industry enterprises want to get benefits on imports of components and equipment for the modernization of production, First Deputy head of the State Agency for State Corporate Rights and Property Management Oleksandr Kalenkov said.