KYIV, July 26 – The Energy and Coal Industry Ministry has amended the projected balance of electricity of Ukraine for 2018, revising upwards expectations about generation of electricity by hydroelectric power plants (HPPs) and intermittent power plants.

KYIV, July 26 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny has said that RGC (Regional Gas Company) is trying to divert public attention from illegal gas pumping by companies that are part of the group.

KYIV, July 26 – Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said the country is ready to put 44 fields with 150 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas stocks up for electronic auctions.

KIEV, July 26 - The independent directors of Dragon Ukrainian Properties and Development Plc (DUPD) Mark Iwashko and Aloysius Wilhelmus Johannes van der Heijden have revised their position and now they believe shareholders should now accept the offer from Dragon Capital Investments Limited (DCI) to purchase shares, Interfax-Ukraine reported.

KIEV, July 25 – Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman urged the Infrastructure Ministry to draft a strategy for the transportations sector instead of lobbying for individual projects.

KIEV, July 25 – Ukrnafta, the country’s largest oil company, has started looking for partners for five investment projects the implementation of which is planned at its facilities, the company reported Tuesday.

KIEV, July 25 - ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, the country’s largest steel smelter, will invest $267 million in modernization of production in 2017, company CEO Paramjit Kahlon said.

KIEV, July 25 - A number of nationalist groups, including the National Corps, Svoboda and Right Sector, plan in September to begin actions blocking the activities of Russian companies in Ukraine, parliamentary lawmaker Andriy Illenko said.

KIEV, July 26 – Ukraine's Justice Ministry seeks to find a legal way of forcing Russia’s Gazprom to pay UAH 172 billion in penalties for abusing monopoly status, Justice Minister Pavlo Petrenko said.

KIEV, July 26 – A total of 1.355 million metric tons of imported coal was shipped to Ukrainian thermal power plants (TPPs) and heat and power plants in January-June 2017, including 313,000 tons from Russia in June and 44,600 tons from South Africa.