KIEV, June 23 – Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers plans to sell 60.2% of Zaporizhiaoblenergo power distribution company and 25% plus one share in PJSC Odesaoblenergo power distribution company by December 31.

KIEV, June 23 - Moody's Investors Service has assigned Counterparty Risk Assessments (CR Assessments) to three Ukrainian banks: CR Assessments of Caa2(cr) were assigned to Raiffeisen Bank Aval, and Caa3(cr) to PrivatBank and Oschadbank of Ukraine. Concurrently, Not-Prime(cr) short-term CR Assessments have been assigned to all the banks.

KIEV, June 24 – State Food-Grain Corporation plans to supply 1.5-2 million tons of corn to the Chinese market in the 2015-2016 agricultural year (July 2015- June 2016) under a quota of its Chinese partner CCEC.

KIEV, June 24 – Ukraine's Ministry of Finance, has after a three-month break resumed the initial primary offering of government domestic loan bonds, and at an auction on June 23 raised $140.03 million for 12 months at an average weighted rate of 8.66%.

MOSCOW, June 23 - The Ukrainian government has held informal talks with private investors about the possibility of postponing the repayment of its bonds, the Institute of International Finance, representing the interests of the world's largest 450 banks and funds, has told The Wall Street Journal newspaper.

KIEV, June 24 – The final results of the stress tests of Ukrainian banks, after which the amounts of possible additional capitalization will be determined, will be known no earlier late September, the National Bank of Ukraine reported on Monday.

IVANO-FRANKIVSK, June 25 – Finland is expecting that the interest of its businessmen in Ukraine will increase after the signing of the economic part of the Association Agreement with the European Union on June 27, 2014.

KIEV, June 25 - Ukraine invited European monitors to come and check the flow of Russian natural gas to the European Union via Ukrainian gas pipelines, Ukrtransgaz, the state-owned gas shipper, said Wednesday.

The invitations, submitted to Belgium-based ENTSOG and Austria-based Energy Community, are aimed at dismissing potential allegations from Russia that the flow of gas may be eventually restricted by Ukraine.

KIEV, June 25 - Ukraine will be able to meet its own demand for natural gas within the next 5 to 7 years by tapping new and boosting output from existing gas fields, Naftogazvydobuvannia, the country’s largest privately owned gas producer, said Wednesday.

KIEV, June 21 – The National Bank of Ukraine has decided to toughen the obligatory reservation of accounts and deposits in foreign currency of companies and individuals from 3% to 5% for long-term deposits, from 9% to 10% for short-term deposits, and from 10% to 15% for called deposits and current accounts of individuals in foreign currency.