KIEV, July 22 – UkrNafta shareholders voted Wednesday to appoint Mark Rollins as the new chairman of Ukraine’s largest oil company, ending years of shareholder dispute between the government and billionaire Ihor Kolomoyskiy.

SIMFEROPOL, July 20 - The Crimean Chornomornaftogaz State Gas Company (now called Chernomorneftegaz in annexed Crimea), which produces gas and oil off the coast of Crimea in the Black Sea and around the peninsula, is planning to double the capacity of the sole underground gas storage facility (UGS) on the peninsula, the Hlibovske UGS, company CEO Sergey Beym said.

KIEV, July 20 - Ukraine in 2015 is unlikely to import more than 20 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas, according to Naftogaz Ukrayiny Director for Business Development Yuriy Vitrenko.

KIEV, July 20 – The debt of insolvent banks to the National Bank of Ukraine as of June 1 totaled UAH 37.068 billion and has grown by UAH 27.438 billion since early 2015, the Individuals' Deposit Guarantee Fund said in an analytical report, a copy of which has been sent to Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, July 21 – Ukraine International Airlines has asked the European Commission to accelerate the signing of the Common Aviation Area Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union.

KIEV, July 18 – The State Food-Grain Corporation has discussed an investment program on the development of corporation, with the attraction of the commodity part of a credit from China with its Chinese partners - the China National Complete Engineering Corporation (CCEC).

KIEV, July 21 – Nord (Donetsk), the largest Ukrainian refrigerator producer, continues operating despite the difficult situation in the city, the company has said.

KIEV, July 19 - Ukraine's doctor shortage level is currently 18%, the Ministry of Health reported.

"What is the staffing in general in Ukraine? It is 82% of medical posts. The situation with junior health workers is somewhat better - almost 89%," the director of the department for human resources, education and science at the Health Ministry, Mykola Osiychuk, said at a briefing in Kiev.

KIEV, July 19 - Fitch Ratings has affirmed the City of Kiev's Long-term foreign and local currency ratings at 'B-', with stable outlooks, and its short-term foreign currency rating at 'B'.

KIEV/KHARKIV, July 19 – The Income and Tax Ministry has promised to speed up customs procedures for pilgrims arriving to celebrate the 1,025th anniversary of the Baptizing of the Kievan Rus, said Minister Oleksandr Klymenko.