KYIV, Dec 20 - Ukraine's government agreed Wednesday to extend ban on imports of certain commodities from Russia through the end of 2018, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said.

KYIV, Dec 21 - The Finance Ministry is hailing the freeze on the assets of the former owners of PrivatBank, Ihor Kolomoisky and Hennadiy Boholiubov, as well as six companies they either own or control, imposed by a London court.

KYIV, Dec 21 – Uber, an international ride sharing company, has opened its headquarters for Central and Eastern Europe in Kyiv and appointed Oleksiy Stakh as Uber General Manager for the region.

MOSCOW, Dec. 21 - The Russian side views Kiev's desire to sign a supplementary agreement to its gas supply contract as an attempt to strengthen its position in the multibillion-dollar Stockholm arbitration between Gazprom and Naftogaz Ukrayiny.

KIEV, Dec. 21 – National Bank of Ukraine Governor Valeriya Gontareva sees good prospects for selling nationalized PrivatBank in the next three years.

KIEV, Dec. 19 – Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers has approved amendments to the financial plan of state-run enterprise Boryspil International Airport for 2016 in resolution No. 963-r dated December 14.

KIEV, Dec. 19 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny will decrease the price of prepaid gas sold to industrial consumers by 2.9%, to UAH 7,552 per 1,000 cubic meters, including VAT, from January 1, 2017.

KIEV, Dec. 20 - ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih has won a case on damage to the environment exceeding UAH 72 million at the Higher Economic Court of Ukraine against the prosecutor's office of Dnipropetrovsk region, acting in the interests of the state in the person of the State Ecological Inspectorate in Dnipropetrovsk region.

KIEV, Dec. 21 – The Finance Ministry believes that it is appropriate to sell at least 25% of shares in state-owned Oschadbank and Ukreximbank by the end of 2019, Deputy Finance Minister Artem Shevalev said.

KIEV, Dec. 18 – Ukraine plans to supply 30 new multipurpose An-178 aircraft with a carrying capacity of 18 tons to the Air Force of Saudi Arabia.

The cooperation plans are outlined in a memorandum signed by Antonov State Enterprise and Taqnia Aeronautics (Saudi Arabia) on December 17, 2015 in Kiev, the press service of the state enterprise reported on Friday.