KIEV, July 17 – American partners are mulling the financing of long-time programs at low rates via U.S. Eximbank to buy modern foreign machinery for the needs of Ukrainian agriculture, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said.

KIEV, July 17 – State-owned Ukreximbank plans to finalize a deal on restructuring eurobonds in the last 10 days of July, according to the website of the issuer.

KIEV, July 17 - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has revised its outlooks for the cities Kiev and Dnipropetrovsk to stable from negative, according to a press release of the agency.

BRUSSELS, July 17 - European Union countries have limited international funding for projects in Russia and Crimea by adopting six new measures related to the Ukrainian crisis and Russia's annexation of Crimea.

KIEV, July 18 – It is planned to shut down 46 coal mines in Donetsk and Luhansk regions as a part restructuring the coal industry through 2017, Natalia Zinkevych, director of the labor and employment market of the said Social Policy Ministry.

KIEV, July 18 – State Enterprise Antonov (Kiev) is preparing to transfer a fifth An-158 regional jet to Cubana de Aviacion airline by the end of this month, the company has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, July 18 – The German-Ukrainian Fund (GUF) is launching a pilot program for lending to micro, small- and medium-sized businesses (MSMB) in Ukraine's priority industries at a limited interest rate, according to the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, July 18 – The adoption of the law on state service would resolve the problem of the material security of state officials and make this profession more prestigious, Head of the Main Department of the Civil Service of Ukraine Tymofiy Motrenko has said.

KIEV, July 19 - Ukrainian Research and Design Institute for Industrial Technology (Zhovti Vody, Dnipropetrovsk region) wants to attract open joint-stock company State Special Project Institute (GSPI, Russia) as a subcontractor to draw up of a feasibility study for the construction of a nuclear fuel production plant in Ukraine, the Economic Development and Trade Ministry reported.

KIEV, July 20 – An expert and analytical group on the functioning of the fuel market and oil sector development under the Cabinet of Ministers has reduced the recommended ceiling price of A-95 gasoline by 0.5% or five kopecks, to UAH 9.85 per liter.