KIEV, July 3 – Losses of goods as a result of separatist looting of the METRO center in Donetsk have been assessed at EUR 1 million, according to METRO Cash & Carry Ukraine Director Klaus Raettig.

KIEV, July 3 – The Cabinet of Ministers plans to raise $500 million from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD, the World Bank group) under the First Development Policy Loan (DPL1) systemic project.

KIEV, July 3 - Ukraine completed repair of a damaged section of a natural gas pipeline that carries Russian gas to markets in the European Union, the Emergency Situations Ministry reported Thursday.

KIEV, July 3 - Parliament on Thursday rejected the government’s bill introducing a state of emergency in Ukraine’s energy sector, triggering a warning from the prime minister the move may result in natural gas shortages in the winter.

KIEV, July 1 - SUN InBev Ukraine said it could partially close production facilities in the country if Parliament triples excise duty on beer.

"We are mulling the closing of production facilities if the excise duty is tripled," the director for legal affairs and corporate communications at SUN InBev Ukraine, Denys Khrenov, said at a press conference in Kiev.

KIEV, July 1 – VETEK Group paid $125 million in its recent acquisition of the Odessa oil refinery, the beneficiary of the group, Serhiy Kurchenko, said in an interview with Forbes.

KIEV, July 1 - Shell's chief of Ukraine operations says he's concerned about the attempts of the authorities to intervene in the work of the Ukrainian gas market.

IVANO-FRANKIVSK, July 2 – A research center for the development and support of solutions for shale gas extraction has been created at Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas.

KIEV, July 3 – Ukrainian cement companies will have to stop 50% of rotary kilns if the government does not take into account their needs in imported coal during the distribution of coal imports quotas, Ukrcement Association Chairman Miguel Machado told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, July 3 – The government has proposed that Parliament increase the excise duties on beer, spirit, alcohol and tobacco by 4.6-11.7% in 2014 under the annual excise duty indexation procedure foreseen in the Tax Code of Ukraine.