KIEV, July 26 - Kiev prosecutors and agents from the SBU Security Service are conducting searches in the premises of state-run Boryspil Airport as part of a criminal investigation into large-scale embezzlement of budget funds during state procurements.

KIEV, July 26 - Ukraine's State Fiscal Service is planning to launch the digital control system of payment of excise duty as well as the traceability of the origin and movement of excisable products in the tobacco industry in 2017.

KIEV, July 27 – Ukrainian airlines saw a 19.4% rise in passenger transportation in January-June year-over-year, to 3.26 million people.

According to the State Aviation Service, 28 Ukrainian airlines that serviced 34,100 commercial flights operated on the passenger and cargo transportation market in H1. Some 17 Ukrainian airlines were involved in passenger transportation last year.

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.