KIEV, July 27 – Ukrzaliznytsia Chairman Wojciech Balczun has said that international operations of the company should be stepped up.

He seeks to create the UZ Cargo International brand within six months, Balczun wrote on his Facebook page, commenting on the board's action plan presented to the Infrastructure Ministry by him on July 25.

KIEV, July 27 – Director of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) Artem Sytnyk said that the issue of influence of the criminal case against top managers of Odessa Port-Side Chemical Plant (OCPC) on the privatization of the enterprise is speculative.

KIEV, July 27 – National energy company Ukrenergo expressed alarm at the unequal distribution of coal stocks in the warehouses of thermal power plants of electricity generating companies.

KIEV, July 27 - Ukraine’s Slovyansk-based coal-burning power plant resumed operation on Monday to compensate for a major shortfall of power caused by separatist artillery fire.

KIEV, July 24 – The Presidential Administration and the State Fiscal Service are preparing draft laws to relax the administration of taxes and duties and they will be submitted to Parliament this autumn, head of Presidential Administration Borys Lozhkin said.

KIEV, July 27 - Wage arrears in Ukraine 2015 grew 5.8% in June and since early 2015 they grew by 45.1%, the State Statistics Service reported.

According to the service, wage arrears on July 1, 2015 amounted to UAH 1.916 billion, or 5.4% of the monthly wage fund for June.

KIEV, July 25 - The overall sum of wage arrears in Ukraine as of July 1 shrank by 6% from June 1, to UAH 1.187 billion, the National Statistics Service said on Monday.

Delayed wages as of July 1 were 2.6% less on January 1, 2011 and 33.8% down on July 1, 2010.

KIEV, July 26 - Metinvest Holding LLC has won a Ukrtransgaz tender to provide corrosion-resistant steel pipes for UAH 911 million.

The results of the tender, according to the Economic Development and Trade Ministry, say Ukrtransgaz, a subsidiary of national oil and gas company Naftogaz Ukrayiny, signed an agreement with Metinvest for the supply of Du-1020 (78 tons) and Du-1420 (33,236 tons) steel pipes.

KIEV, July 26 – Ukraine's State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate has allowed EnergoAtom to test nuclear fuel produced by U.S.-based Westinghouse in another reactor, on the condition that certain requirements are observed.

KIEV, July 26 – Ukrnafta, Ukraine's largest oil producer, has appealed against a ruling by the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce that the company must pay $146.9 million in compensation to Carpatsky Petroleum Corporation, Delaware, the United States, for failing to fulfill an agreement on the joint development of the Rudivske-Krasnozavodske gas condensate field in Poltava region.