KIEV, Aug. 16 – The surplus of Ukraine's foreign trade in services from January through June 2007 is estimated at $1.853 billion, down from $1.928 billion in the first half of 2006, the State Statistics Committee reported.

KYIV, July 18 – Fitch Ratings has affirmed Metinvest B.V.'s Long-Term Foreign- and Local-Currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDR) and senior unsecured rating at 'CCC.' The Recovery Rating is 'RR4.'

According to a press release, they have also downgraded Metinvest's National Long-Term rating to 'BBB(ukr)' from 'AA+(ukr)' and its National Short-Term rating to 'F3(ukr)' from F1+(ukr).' The Outlook for the National Long-Term Rating is Stable.

KYIV, July 15 - Fitch Ratings has downgraded National Joint Stock Company Naftogaz Ukrainy's (Naftogaz) Long-Term Issuer Default Rating (IDR) to 'C' from 'CCC' following its consent solicitation to defer its debt servicing of its eurobonds, including that due on July 19, 2022, the rating agency said on its website.

KYIV, July 15 – Since the beginning of the war, Ukraine has managed to double the transportation of grain by rail to more than 800,000 tons, cargo traffic at road checkpoints by 2.6 times and increase the transshipment of grain in the Danube ports to almost 1 million tons per month, Minister of Infrastructure Oleksandr Kubrakov said.

KYIV, July 18 - President Volodymyr Zelensky expanded the shakeup of his security services on Monday by suspending 28 more officials, a day after he dismissed two senior officials over allegations that their agencies harbored “collaborators and traitors.”

KYIV, July 18 – The weighted average vacancy in the shopping and entertainment center in Kyiv increased from 11.5% in December 2021 to 18.7% in July 2022, the press service of the Ukrainian Trade Guild (UTG) told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, July 18 – The area of the shopping centers of Smart-Holding, owned by businessman Vadim Novinsky, available for rent had decreased from 132,000 square meters to 62,000 square meters since the beginning of the full-scale Russian aggression against Ukraine, Yulia Kiryanova, CEO of the holding, has said.

KYIV, July 18 - The State Property Fund (SPF) of Ukraine proposes to sell Centrenergo together with state-owned mines in one lot, for which it seeks appropriate changes in the legislation, SPF Head Olha Batova has said.

KYIV, July 19 – Velta LLC with assets for extraction of titanium-bearing ores in Novomyrhorod (Kirovohrad region) received export licenses for supplies to the United States, and also resumed the shipment of this raw material from Ukraine, CEO and co-owner of the company Andriy Brodsky said on Facebook.

KYIV, July 19 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny was forced to apply to eurobond holders with a proposal to voluntarily defer payments on securities for two years in connection with the government's decision to accumulate 19 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas for the upcoming heating season and the need to find about $8 billion for these purposes, head of the board Yuriy Vitrenko said.