KYIV, June 21 – Despite the decline in the interest of investors to emerging markets and the strengthening of the U.S. dollar, Ukraine’s currency, the hryvnia, maintains stability, Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Oleh Churiy said at a meeting with bankers.

KYIV, June 21 - The level of shadow economy in Ukraine in 2017 decreased to 31% of GDP, falling by 4 percentage points compared to the figure of 2016, the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade reported.

KYIV, June 22 – Law-abiding business should not suffer from toughened control at customs offices as part of fight against smuggling, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said, announcing the creation of the government's hotline for effective exchange of information with businessmen.

KIEV, June 22 – The condition of the radioactive waste storage facility, which is located in an area controlled by the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), is a cause for major concern, Major-General Andriy Taran, the head of the Ukrainian side of the Joint Control and Coordination Center (JCCC), said.

ST. PETERSBURG/KIEV, June 23 – Rusal (Russia) has once again announced its intention to defend its interests in international courts after the decision of Ukrainian courts to return a 68.01% stake of PJSC Zaporizhia Aluminum Plant (ZAlK) to state ownership and transfer the stake in the securities to the account of Ukraine's State Property Fund.

LONDON, June 23 - Ukraine can save $15.3 billion in payments on external bonds without a principal writedown sought by the government in its restructuring talks with creditors, Kristin Lindow, senior vice president at Moody's Investors Service, said in an interview with Bloomberg agency last week in London.

MOSCOW, June 23 - Gazprom is increasing gas transit volumes through Ukraine due to maintenance work on the Nord Stream gas pipeline scheduled to begin on Tuesday.

KIEV, June 23 – The pace of the Ukrainian economy in May was better than in April, although a new recession is continuing, and price stability has to be restored to reduce recession risks and reforms for attracting investments should be stirred up, said Valeriy Lytvytsky advisor to the NBU governor.

KIEV, June 24 – The possible ban on supplies of crops to Russia due to the spread of western corn rootworm in Ukraine and the European Union is not critical, the Ukrainian Grain Association said.

KIEV, June 24 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny still believes that the conditions of the gas transit contract of 2009 signed with Russia's Gazprom are discriminatory and the company will continue achieving its revision via negotiations, but if the talks are a failure, the company will file a claim at the Stockholm arbitration institution, Naftogaz Ukrayiny Chairman Andriy Kobolev said.