MINSK, Aug 3 - Belarussian investor Viktor Prokopenya has withdrawn his bid for the Ukrainian subsidiary of Russia's biggest bank Sberbank, saying it would be too time consuming, Reuters reported.

Prokopenya was one of several bidders for the unit, which Sberbank put up for sale in March after Ukraine imposed sanctions on Sberbank and other Russian state banks operating in Ukraine in response to tensions over pro-Russian secessionists in eastern Ukraine.

KYIV, Aug 3 - Ukraine has flatly rejected calls from Russia to withdraw its natural gas transit complaint at the Stockholm arbitration court in exchange for negotiating a new gas transit deal after 2019.

KIEV, Aug. 3 – Ukraine recycled only 5.1% (1.9 million cubic meters) of its total household waste in 2015, according to an analysis drawn up by the National Commission for Energy, Housing and Utilities Services Regulation.

KIEV, Aug. 1 - The debt of the Ukrainian public for housing and utilities services in June fell by 2.2% compared to May and amounted to UAH 9.81 billion, the State Statistics Service said.

KIEV, Aug. 3 – Centrenergo by the end of this year seeks to import around 300,000 tons of coal via ports, acting Director General Oleh Kozemko said in an interview with Business Censor online publication.

KIEV, Aug. 3 – The deposit use commission on August 1 decided to issue seven new hydrocarbon production licenses to Ukrgazvydobuvannia, Ukraine's State Service for Geology and Deposits reported.

KIEV, Aug. 3 – Ukraine's State Fiscal Service has started providing access to the "single-face-to-the-customer" system to adjacent services, the authority reported on its website.

KIEV, July 30 - The state concern Ukroboronprom says it is "strictly following" the embargo on the supply to Russia of parts for weapons and military equipment.

KIEV, July 31 – DTEK will file a counterclaim against a ruling of the business court of Kiev that declared the privatization of 25% of shares in public joint-stock company Dniproenergo (Zaporizhia) by DTEK illegal, the energy holding said in a report.

KIEV, July 31 – France's Novarka Concern, the general constructor of the New Safe Confinement (NSC) at Chernobyl nuclear power plant, has joined together the two halves of the arch of the NSC, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development reported.