KYIV, July 20 – Ukraine will seek Germany's assistance in implementing pilot projects to transform coal regions, acting Energy Minister Olha Buslavets said.

KYIV, July 20 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) may cut the refinancing rate on July 23 by one percentage point, to 5% per annum, given the slight acceleration of inflation in June to 2.4% from 1.7% in May, according to poll of bankers released by Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, July 19 – National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) detectives under the procedural guidance of prosecutors from the Specialized Anti-corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAPO) on Friday conducted searches at joint-stock automobile company Bogdan Motors, including the 5th Element sports club in Kyiv.

KYIV, July 19 - A further delay in implementing a ruling of international arbitration under which Ukraine should pay $112 million in a dispute with Russia's Tatneft could lead to the seizure of Ukrainian assets abroad, in particular, those due to pay coupons on sovereigns.

KYIV, July 19 – The interdepartmental commission for concluding and implementing production sharing agreements (PSAs) in a tender for the development of the Dolphin hydrocarbon section on the Black Sea shelf has given the same number of points (170 points) to bids of Caspian Drilling International and Trident Black Sea.

KYIV, July 19 – The National Anti-corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) is conducting a raid in the central office of the ICU investment group in Kyiv, the company said it had fully satisfied all NABU requests for information before, and regards these investigative actions "as an attempt to put pressure which has an explicit political context."

KYIV, July 19 – About UAH 2 billion a year to be earned from the special duties imposed on imports of diesel and liquefied gas from the Russian Federation should be spent on housing and public utilities subsidies paid to low-income groups, said the representative of the President in the Cabinet of Ministers Andriy Gerus.

KIEV, July 21 – The U.S. General Electric Corporation has signed letters of cooperation with Ukraine's Antonov State Enterprise and public joint-stock company Ukrzaliznytsia.

KIEV, July 21 – National Nuclear Generating Company Energoatom has denied the report of a serious accident at Khmelnytsky nuclear plant.

MP Andriy Artemenko (Radical Party) has said that on July 16 a serious accident with leakage of nuclear fuel was recorded at the facility.

KIEV, July 21 - Ukraine could lower the reserve price in the privatization of a fertilizer plant, the head of the State Property Fund said, after an initial auction was cancelled due to a lack of bidders, Reuters reported.