KIEV, July 22 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny has filed claims to collect UAH 3.916 billion of debts and sanctions from public joint-stock company Kyivenergo for natural gas consumed in 2014-2015.
KIEV, July 21 – Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has ordered the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry to agree with the industrial sector on volumes of gas consumption that will be reduced in 2014.
KIEV, July 22 – The International Monetary Fund expects Ukraine to finally pass a law on restructuring currency credits by Aug. 16, and demands that the law is passed with certain wording, according to Oleksiy Kaida, first deputy head of the parliamentary committee for finances and banking operation.
KIEV, July 22 – Standard & Poor's in its Capital IQ quarterly survey for May-June has placed Ukraine seventh in the ranking of the riskiest countries in the world, whereas in the previous study the country ranked sixth (the lower position in the rating assumes a lower probability of default relative to the other countries analyzed).
DONETSK, July 22 – The Infrastructure Ministry is ready to introduce incentive programs envisaging significant discounts for international low-cost airlines that want to work at Ukrainian airports, First Deputy Infrastructure Minister Kostiantyn Yefymenko said.
KIEV, July 23 – The interdepartmental commission on distributing quotas on goods whose import is subject to licensing in 2013 has decided to allocate quotas on imported coal of 800,000 tons to cement producers.
KIEV, July 23 – Swiss-based Nestle, one of the world's largest food producers, plans in 2013 to invest UAH 36 million in its Lviv-based Svitoch confectionery factory.
KIEV, July 23 - DTEK, which in recent years has bought two of Ukraine's four state thermal power generating companies, is not intending to participate in tenders for the purchase of the third and fourth companies, Donbasenergo and Centrenergo.
KIEV, July 23 - Metinvest, Ukraine's largest mining and steel group, has reached an agreement with Black Iron Inc on investment in Black Iron (Cyprus) Ltd (BKI Cyprus), a subsidiary of the Canadian miner that owns iron ore assets in Ukraine.
