KYIV, Aug 1 – The debt of the population of Ukraine for housing and utilities services in June 2019 decreased by 3.6% from May 2019 and amounted to UAH 50.1 billion (excluding electricity).

KYIV, Aug 1 – The operator of the oil transport system of Ukraine, Ukrtransnafta, has been paid some EUR 2.3 million, as a part of a compensation from Russia's Transneft for displacing non-merchantable oil from the Druzhba oil pipeline.

KYIV, Aug 1 – The preliminary conclusions of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) on possible abuse of monopoly by nitrogen fertilizer plants incorporated in Group DF of businessman Dmytro Firtash contain false information, Group DF has said.

KYIV, Aug 1 – The Mining and Metallurgical Combine ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih (Dnipropetrovsk region) has opened a new metalware storage facility in Dnipro city with a loading capacity of 5,000 tons per month.

KYIV, Aug 1 – Former international advisor to the U.S. Treasury's Office of Technical Assistance and previously Expert Advisor to the IMF, Sharon Easky, was elected as the Chairwoman of the Management Board PrivatBank.

KYIV, Aug 1 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) will soften sharp rate movements, however it will not interfere in the market trend of national currency consolidation, NBU director of the open markets department Serhiy Ponomarenko said.

KYIV, Aug 1 – Ukraine for the first time since 2013 reported 0.9% rise in employment numbers in January through June amid signs the economy has been picking up pace, Valeriy Yaroshenko, the acting head of the State Employment Service, said.

KYIV, Aug. 1 - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development may provide $100 million loan to Naftogaz Ukrayiny in September to help the company pay for natural gas imports ahead of the winter, the EBRD reported Wednesday.

KYIV, Aug. 1 - Coal stocks at the warehouses of Ukraine's thermal power plants (TPP) from June 27 to July 31, 2017 decreased by 15.4% (by 384,600 tons), to 2.117 million tons.

KYIV, Aug. 1 - The share of bad loans in the banking system of Ukraine as of July 1, 2017 was 57.73%, which is 1.34 percentage points (p.p.) more than a month earlier, the relevant data were posted on the website of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU).