KYIV, Sept 20 – The supervisory boards of national joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrayiny and Mahistralni Gazoprovody Ukrayiny hope to create a gas storage branch of Ukrtransgaz before January 1, 2019.

KYIV, Sept 20 – An open auction for the sale of the integrated property complex of Mykolaiv Shipyard Okean at the starting price of UAH 1.8 billion scheduled for September 21 in accordance with the law on restoration of the debtor's solvency or declaring it bankrupt has been postponed to October due to a lack of filed applications, liquidator Iryna Serbin said.

KYIV, Sept 20 – Another Centaur-class fast assault boat built at the shipbuilding plant of Kuznya on Rybalsky for the Navy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has been launched in Kyiv, the Defense Ministry reported on Thursday.

KYIV, Sept 21 – The excessive use of force by law enforcement agencies against businesses is unacceptable, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said.

He said this in the in the Verkhovna Rada on Friday, while commenting on searches at the Bukovel ski resort.

ODESA, Sept 20 - Ukraine needs foreign direct investment (FDI) to provide stable growth, and one of the fastest instruments for attracting at least $15-20 billion could be the offer of state-owned agricultural land estimated at 10 million hectares, Managing Partner of ICU Investment Group Makar Paseniuk has stated.

KYIV, Sept 21 - Clearstream international settlement depository plans to open foreign investors access to Ukraine's government domestic loan bonds in the first quarter of 2019.

KYIV, Sept 21 - The committee for supervision and regulation of banks' operations, oversight of payment systems of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has decided to refuse the acquisition of a significant participation in PJSC Sberbank (Kyiv) through Paritetbank (Belarus) in the amount of 100% of its charter capital.

KYIV, Sept 24 – Several companies and banks are designing a mobile application for buying government domestic loan bonds, Head of the Depositary Operations Department of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Andriy Suprun said.

KYIV, Sept 24 - DTEK Energy has entered into an agreement with a lender on the long-term restructuring of its obligations, the energy holding said on Euronext Dublin, Ireland's main stock exchange, on September 21.

KYIV, Sept 24 - Ukraine has raised natural gas reserves in its underground storage facilities (UGS) by 8.374 billion cubic meters (bcm) after the end of the heating season, JSC Ukrtransgaz has said.