KIEV, July 3 – Ukraine’s power grid Ukrenergo, one of the major targets in recent cyber attack believed to be carried out by Russia, plans a major effort to protect the country’s critical infrastructure.

KIEV, July 3 – Ukraine will seek to integrate its power grid into the European Network of Transmission System Operators (ENTSO-E), Vsevolod Kovalchuk, the head of the power grid Ukrenergo, said.

KIEV, July 3 – Ukraine increased transit of Russian natural gas through its gas transportation system to Europe by 21.8% year-on-year in January-June 2017 to 45.704 billion cubic meters (bcm), PJSC Ukrtransgaz said in preliminary data.

KIEV, July 3 – An investment group linked to President Petro Poroshenko plans to raise $200 million through a fund registered on Cayman Islands to invest into Ukrainian projects, a senior group official said.

KIEV, July 1 - Unilever, one of the world's leading manufacturers of consumer goods, on July 1 opened a tea factory with a capacity of 2,000 tons of tea per year in Hostomel (Kiev region).

KIEV, July 1 – Despite removal of banks from the market, capitalization of the banking system since early 2015 has grown by 18% or UAH 39 billion, to UAH 218 billion as of May 1, 2016, according to a presentation at a press conference of the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, July 1 – The Second Urban Infrastructure Project (UIP-2) and the District Heating Energy Efficiency Project being implemented by the Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities Economy Ministry using loans from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development are at the final stage of restructuring.

KIEV, July 1 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny on June 30 sent a letter to Gazprom, proposing to sign an addendum to the 2009 natural gas supply contract, stipulating details of possible shipments in the third quarter of 2016, the state holding company's CEO Andriy Kobolev said on Channel 5 television.

KIEV, July 1 - Ukraine's central bank urged lenders in April to review security procedures, saying thieves had attempted to steal money from a Ukrainian bank using fraudulent SWIFT transfers, according to a confidential message obtained by Reuters.

KIEV, July 1 – State enterprise EnergoAtom and Holtec International (the United States) have signed a supplementary agreement to the contract for the construction of a centralized waste nuclear fuel storage, the company announced.