KYIV, Sept 26 – Ukrainian law enforcement agencies discovered and suspended an illegal water pipeline operation that had supplied water Russian-occupied Crimea, the authorities reported Wednesday.

KYIV, Sept 26 - Touchstone Capital Group (the U.K.) is interested in a project to build an offshore combined solar and wind power plant in Ukraine, the press service of Ukraine's Energy and Coal Industry Ministry has reported after a meeting of profile specialists of the ministry with a delegation of the company.

KYIV, Sept 26 – Ukraine's Ministry of Finance has listed Gazprom's implementation of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project among main fiscal risks.

"The implementation of the Nord Stream 2 project will result in losses due to a decrease in exports of services by about 2.5-3% of GDP (only direct losses)," the ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.

KYIV, Sept 27 – The volume of money remittances to Ukraine from emigrants working in other countries exceeds $5 billion a quarter, Board Chairman of RwS Bank Vladyslav Kravets said.

NEW YORK, Sept 27 – Ukraine will seek to boost economic and trade ties with Turkey after a meeting between President Petro Poroshenko and his Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in New York.

OBUKHIV, Sept 26 – BASF, an international chemical producer, is to invest EUR 2 million in a new plant that will produce concrete additives in the town of Obukhiv, Kyiv region, which is to open next spring, Managing Director (CEO) at BASF Ukraine Andreas Lier said.

KYIV, Sept 26 – The lack of financial support from international donors may considerably complicate the refinancing of over $6.1 billion in state debt maturing in 2019, according to the Finance Ministry.

KIEV, Sept. 29 - PJSC Zaporizhtransformator (ZTR) and Posco Daewoo Corporation (South Korea) have registered as bidders in a tender called by national energy company Ukrenergo to buy nine pieces of transformer equipment, namely 750 kV reactors.

KIEV, Sept. 28 – Ukrzaliznytsia is testing a TE33À freight diesel locomotive made by General Electric Corporation.

"The General Electric's locomotive is being tested in Ukraine. The tests will last for four months. All its capabilities will be tested," Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan said at the presentation of the locomotive in Kiev on Wednesday.

KIEV, Sept. 29 – Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has raised its long-term counterparty credit rating on Ukraine-based PrivatBank JSC to 'CC' from 'SD' and its short-term counterparty credit rating to 'C' from 'SD'.