CLEVELAND, Aug 3 - The FBI on Tuesday raided the Cleveland offices of a company with ties to a Ukrainian oligarch that owns several downtown buildings, Cleveland.com reported.

KYIV, Aug 1 – Ukrainians purchased goods for UAH 11.7 billion on EVO marketplaces (prom.ua, bigl.ua, shafa.ua, crafta.ua) in January-June 2019, which is 17% more than in the same period in 2018.

KYIV, Aug 1 – Ukraine saw a $1.2 billion surplus of a consolidated balance of payments in June 2019 compared with a $750 million deficit in May, a $45 million deficit in April, a $652 million surplus in March 2019 and a $23 million surplus in June 2018.

KYIV, Aug 2 – Zaporizhstal, one of the largest steel makers and taxpayers in Ukraine, reduced rolled steel production by 2.2% in January-July 2019 year-over-year, to 2.34 million tons.

KYIV, Aug 2 – The Cabinet of Ministers has expanded from one to eight the list of product codes for liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) imported from the Russian Federation, which are subject to special duty payments.

KYIV, Aug 2 – Ukraine could have cheap loans at 12-13% in hryvnia next year in an optimistic scenario, according to Oleksiy Honcharuk, the deputy head of the Office of the President.

KYIV, Aug 2 – The Antimonopoly Committee following its meeting on Thursday postponed a final decision on the forced separation of chemical assets belonging to Group DF and businessman Dmytro Firtash until August 8.

KIEV, Aug. 4 – Britain's Ferrexpo mining company, which has major assets in Ukraine, has said that it could again restructure its $346 million eurobonds due in 2018-2019.

MOSCOW, Aug. 4 - Hungary's OTP Group, which has a bank in Ukraine, is in talks to buy the Ukrainian subsidiary of Russian state bank VEB, Prominvestbank, Kommersant newspaper reported on Thursday, citing sources close to VEB and familiar with the course of the negotiations.

KIEV, Aug. 2 – National joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrayiny justified purchase an armored vehicle for the company's head Andriy Kobolev because of risks linked to litigation in the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce.