KYIV, Aug. 1 - RGK Trading company signed an agreement with Eustream on access to Slovak gas transportation capacities to import gas from EU countries to Ukraine, the company's press service reported.

KYIV, July 31 – The Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry does not rule out that the bill on the turnover of farmland would be expanded with a paragraph permitting companies to buy up to 1,000 ha of land.

KYIV, July 31 - Ukraine increased gas production by 2.6% in January-June 2017 year-on-year to 10.262 billion cubic meters (bcm), the Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Ministry reported.

KYIV, July 31 - Ukraine has increased gas inventories in underground storage 61.3% since the end of the heating season, according to operational data from Ukrtransgaz.

KYIV, July 31 – The State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPF) has started accepting applications to lease a part of the engineering facility of the cooling system of Chornobyl nuclear power plant (NPP) to place a solar power plant.

KYIV, July 31 - Elektrokontakt Ukraine LLC, a manufacturer of cable and wires for cars, a subsidiary of Nexans Concern, will open a new plant in Brody (Lviv region) on August 30, which will become the third and largest production site in Ukraine, the press service of the company has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, Aug. 1 – PrivatBank, which was bailed out and nationalized by the government last year, reported UAH 2.908 billion of net loss in January-June 2017 against UAH 531 million of net profit for the same period of 2016.

KIEV, July 29 - Ukrainian Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak met with U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Frank Kendall to discuss military-technical cooperation.

KIEV, Aug. 1 – The Pechersky district court in Kiev has decided to arrest accounts of Fozzy-Food LLC (Vyshneve, Kiev region), part of Fozzy Group and developing the Silpo food supermarket chain in Ukraine. The accounts were arrested to secure the implementation of the company’s credit liabilities to VTB Bank (Kiev).

KIEV, Aug. 1 – Grain harvest in Ukraine could be 61 million tons, according to assessments of Ukraine's Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry. This is 1 million tons more than the forecast presented earlier.