KIEV, July 22 – The Ukroboronprom State Concern is working on the creation of joint ventures with foreign partners as part of the structural reform of the Ukrainian defense industry, Ukroboronprom head Roman Romanov told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, July 21 - Ukraine may move to completely restrict bilateral trade with Russia, said Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk.

KIEV, July 22 – Representatives of the International Atomic Energy Agency on July 19-20 conducted a scheduled inspection of reactor four of Rivne nuclear power plant, at which the scheduled repair is being finished, the press service of National Nuclear Generating Company EnergoAtom has reported.

KIEV, July 23 – Ukraine’s imports of European natural gas fell sharply earlier this month after Hungary had reduced supplies to replenish its own gas stocks, Andriy Kobolev, the head of Naftogaz Ukrayiny, said Wednesday.

KIEV, July 22 – Avdiyivka Coke Plant, part of Metinvest Group, announced it is halving coke production following an artillery strike during the night of July 21 to July 22.

KIEV, July 24 – Over 130 railway infrastructure facilities were damaged due to warfare in May-July at Donetsk, Prydniprovska and Pivdenna railways.

IVANO-FRANKIVSK, July 22 – Swedish-based Electrolux is to launch the manufacture of refrigerators at its factory in Ivano-Frankivsk.

"In May Electrolux Ukraine Ltd. started the implementation of an innovative investment project for the manufacture of refrigerators with a capacity of 200,000 per annum, which will satisfy local demand and will be also for export to the CIS countries and Eastern Europe," Ihor Zvarych, the deputy chairman of Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Administration, said at a meeting of the administration's collegium on Monday.

KHARKIV, July 23 – Kharkiv's district administrative court has held its first hearing on a claim filed by Kharkiv Regional Council deputy Ivan Varchenko (the Batkivschyna faction), who demands that the council's approval of a draft production sharing agreement between Ukraine and Shell, Nadra Yuzivska on the Yuzivska shale gas field be ruled null and void, and cancelled.

KIEV, July 23 - Ukrainian businesses that from July 24 will get the right to supply poultry to the European Union will be allowed to supply by the end of the year at least 50,000 tons of this product to the markets, Agricultural Policy and Food Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk said.

KIEV, July 23 – The Income and Tax Ministry has called for value-added tax to be reduced from 17% to 9% as of January 1, 2014, and tax on sales at a rate of 1% and 2% be simultaneously introduced as compensation.