KIEV, July 28 – President Petro Poroshenko had a phone conversation with Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde, the press service of the head of state reported.

KIEV, July 28 – Ukraine expects that the Stockholm Arbitration Institute will decide on the dispute between national joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrayiny and OJSC Gazprom (Russia) in less than one year, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Prodan said.

KIEV, July 28 – DTEK Luhansk thermal power plant and national energy company Ukrenergo were able to carry out complicated switches in the energy system to prevent the disconnection of all power consumers in Luhansk and Donetsk regions, DTEK reported.

KIEV, July 28 – Ukraine's GDP will register a 3% decline for H1 and could fall 6% this year, First Deputy Economic Development and Trade Minister Anatoliy Maksiuta said at a briefing in Kiev.

KIEV, July 29 - The lawsuits that Naftogaz Ukrayiny and Gazprom have filed against each other in Stockholm arbitration court have been combined into one case, Naftogaz chief Andriy Kobolev said.

DONETSK, July 29 - Intense fighting between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine killed dozens of civilians, soldiers and rebels, as Kiev pressed on with an offensive on Tuesday including near the wreckage of Malaysian flight MH17, Reuters reported.

KIEV, July 26 – The general sum of wage arrears in Ukraine in June fell 5.2% compared to May, and on July 1 totaled UAH990 million, the State Statistics Service reported.

KIEV, July 26 – Ukraine insists that its reasons for initiating a revision of its tariffs in the World Trade Organization are of an exclusively economic nature, as it is unacceptable to consider them in the political context.

KIEV, July 26 – The European Union has expressed its concerns about the fact that Kiev's promise to hold further bilateral consultations is the only result of long consultations with Ukraine on controversial trade issues.

ROSTOV-ON-DON, July 29 – DTEK, Ukraine's largest private energy holding, said it will invest around $80 million in coal enterprises in Russia's Rostov region this year.