BRATISLAVA, Sept. 27 - Slovakian pipeline operator Eustream will temporarily increase capacity of pipelines that supply natural gas to Ukraine in response to growing demand, the company said Tuesday.

KIEV, Sept. 26 – Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers has approved the modernization and overhaul of the section 3,488.36-3,519.87 km of the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline.

KIEV, Sept. 27 - All iPhone7 devices have been imported into Ukraine illegally, head of the State Fiscal Service (GFS) Roman Nasirov said at a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday.

KIEV, Sept. 25 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny and Gaz Ukrayiny last week signed amicable agreements with Ostchem Group on the debt payment schedule and conditions to resume gas supplies to chemical enterprises of the group approved in court rulings.

KIEV, Sept. 25 – Ukrinbank is holding talks on selling 25% of the bank's shares to a foreign investor, which is one of the conditions for raising funds from the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, the bank reported on its website.

KIEV, Sept. 24 – The National Bank of Ukraine has forecast that economic activity in the country will gradually be restored as the indicators in the third quarter are positive and are expected to continue in the fourth quarter, which is corroborated by the NBU's liberalized monetary policy.

KIEV, Sept. 24 – The National Bank of Ukraine has monitored the operation of bank Finance and Credit every day after its status as a troubled bank was lifted on August 27 until the bank was declared insolvent on September 17, and the rumors on alleged splitting transactions or other transactions on the removal of funds from the bank are untrue, NBU Governor Valeriya Gontareva said.

KIEV, Sept. 25 – Ukroboronprom State Concern believes that active raising of private capital for the defense sector and boosting industrial cooperation with foreign partners are the key instruments which will reform the defense industry, Ukroboronprom head Roman Romanov said.

KIEV, Sept. 26 - The Dunapack-Tavria corrugated cardboard packaging plant in Tsiuriupinsk (Kherson region), the building of which was resumed this year by Austrian investor Prinzhorn Holding, is being created to mainly satisfy the demand of global companies like Heinz and Coca-Cola for high-quality packaging, reads a report published in Austria's Wirtschafts Blatt newspaper.

KIEV, Sept. 27 – The National Bank of Ukraine said it increased its gold reserves by 220,000 ounces, to 1.12 million ounces, in January-August.

In August, the NBU bought 60,000 ounces, in July – 10,000 ounces, in May – 70,000 ounces, and 40,000 ounces in each of March and April.