KYIV, Aug 18 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) plans to toughen requirements on audit firms and their employees authorized to audit banks, in particular, the central bank wants not to allow auditors who earlier took part in audits of banks as part of audit firms removed from the NBU register.
KIEV, Aug. 20 – Russia's share of Ukrainian food exports in H1 2015 was 2% compared to 8% in H1 2014, Agricultural Policy and Food Minister Oleksiy Pavlenko reported.
MOSCOW, Aug. 20 – The Nord Stream offshore gas pipeline from Russia to northern Europe was restarted at 7:00 a.m. Moscow time on Thursday after a nine-day scheduled shutdown for maintenance, European gas transport operators reported.
KIEV, Aug. 20 – Dmytro Firtash's Ostchem Holding has around 74,000 tons of nitric fertilizers held in the warehouses of its own distribution chain and most of this has been sold to consumers.
KIEV, Aug. 18 - The decline in industrial production in Ukraine in July 2015 slowed to 13.4% year-on-year from 18.1% in June, 20.7% in May, and 21.7% in April, the State Statistics Service reported.
KIEV, Aug. 18 – Coal stocks at Ukrainian thermal power plant warehouses shrank by 2%, or 26,700 tons, to 1.280 million tons from August 10 to August 17, national energy company Ukrenergo reported.
KIEV, Aug. 19 – The Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry has said that the harvesting of early grain crops from 10.1 million hectares has been finished and 36.7 million tons of grain has been threshed with an average yield of 36.2 centners per hectare.
KIEV, Aug 19 - Immediate losses from the ongoing combat activities in Donetsk and Luhansk regions have cost the government UAH 16 billion, or about $1.2 billion, Finance Minister Oleksandr Shlapak said.
KIEV, Aug. 19 - After the Vojany-Uzhgorod gas pipeline goes fully on line, Ukraine will be able to get over 50% of the gas it needs from the European Union, said Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Prodan.
