KYIV, Aug 19 – Skyrizon Aircraft, a Chinese private company, and Xinwei Technology Group listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange under the terms of agreements with Ukroboronprom state concern will provide Ukraine's aircraft manufacturing industry with grant financing in the amount of $100 million in case of obtaining permission from the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMC) to purchase more than 50% of shares in PJSC Motor Sich (Zaporizhia), an informed source in the government has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, Aug 17 – The National Bank of Ukraine has sold $526.6 million on the interbank forex market from July 30 to prop up the hryvnia.

KYIV, Aug 17 - The U.S. government has transferred another batch of military equipment to the Ukrainian Armed Forces - two counter-battery radars, according to the Facebook page of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

KYIV, Aug 17 - The National Commission for Energy, Housing and Utilities Services Regulation (NCER) intends from July 1, 2019 to cancel its resolution No. 289 of March 3, 2016 on the introduction of formula pricing for steam coal on the principle of "cost in the port of Rotterdam plus the cost of delivery to Ukraine."

KYIV, Aug 17 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny from September 1, 2018 will increase the price of gas sold to industrial consumers on a prepayment basis by 4.6% (UAH 469.2) compared to August, to UAH 10,600 for 1,000 cubic meters (including VAT).

KYIV, Aug 17 – Ostchem's chemical plants will have to stop work in a week if state-run railway operator Ukrzaliznytsia continues to refuse to send railcars for the shipment of their products, Ostchem's press service has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, Aug 20 - Maksym Yefimov, a lawmakers from the Petro Poroshenko group in Parliament, plans to close the deal within six months to buy a controlling stake in energy generating company Donbasenergo, which has been previously owned by former President Viktor Yanukovych.

KYIV, Aug 20 - Ukraine has raised natural gas reserves in its underground storage facilities (UGS) by 6.414 billion cubic meters (bcm) after the end of the heating season, JSC Ukrtransgaz has said.

KYIV. Aug 17 - The consumer sentiment index in Ukraine in July 2017 deteriorated by 0.8 points compared to June, to 58.5 (on a scale of 0 to 200), but from June 2016 this index rose by 8.4 points, according to a monthly survey released by GfK Ukraine.

KYIV, Aug 17 – The existing procedure for holding tenders to lease property has problems that allow unfair bidders to derail the tenders, and the State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPF) has proposed to introduce a requirement to present a deposit by bidders in these tenders, acting SPF Head Dmytro Parfenenko has said.