KYIV, June 17 – Russia's Gazprom has the ability to increase natural gas transit through Ukraine by 82.4 million cubic meters per day, which fully compensates for the decrease in the volume of its pumping through the Nord Stream-1, but does not do this due to political rather than commercial factors, Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine LLC (GTSOU) reported on its website.

KYIV, June 17 – SCM, the largest Ukrainian private financial and industrial group, is starting to work with the international company Covington&Burling to create a legal mechanism for a system of international reparations at the expense of Russia in favor of Ukraine and Ukrainians, SCM Communications Director Natalia Yemchenko has said.

KYIV, June 17 – Energoatom and Ukrgasbank have signed a memorandum of partnership and cooperation, which provides for the creation of a national network of electric vehicle charging stations in Ukraine.

KYIV, June 18 – Coalmines of the state-owned enterprise (SOE) Lvivvuhillia, which employees announced a strike at the beginning of the month, have partially resumed work, Head of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions and Independent Trade Union of Coalmines Mykhailo Volynets said on Tuesday, referring to Chairman of the trade union of the Mezhyrichanska mine Vasyl Lesniak.

KYIV, June 18 – Antonov State Enterprise (Kyiv), part of Ukroboronprom state concern, is expected by the end of the year to receive a firm order from the Interior Ministry for the production of 13 new transport An-178 aircraft with a lifting capacity of 18 tonnes for the State Emergencies Service and the National Guard of Ukraine.

KYIV, June 19 – PepsiCo Ukraine is selling its dairy plant in the Kharkiv region, but will keep the brand of Wimm-Bill-Dann Ukraine, the company reported.

KYIV, June 19 – Dragon Capital Group plans to finalize deals worth $250 million by the end of 2019, Dragon Capital CEO Tomas Fiala said.

"We have several deals at the completion stage that we will finish anyway. Before the [presidential] elections we closed deals that we already had on the pipeline for six months or a year.

KYIV, June 18 – Gas producer Ukrgazvydobuvannia and Germany's BASF chemical concern have signed a three-year contract for supply of fuel additives for Shebel fuel, the press service of Ukrgazvydobuvannia reported.

KYIV, June 19 - Deputy Chairman of Kyiv City State Administration (KCSA) Dmytro Davtian on Monday discussed the possibility of mutual partnership with a delegation from Shanghai led by Vice Mayor Xu Kunlin, the administration's press service reported.

KYIV, June 18 – Westinghouse within cooperation with Turboatom continues to discuss preparations for the implementation of programs to increase the installed capacity of VVER power units and the capability utilization index, while activation of cooperation is possible when launching the Ukraine-EU energy bridge project, Vice President and Managing Director of Westinghouse in Northern Europe Aziz Dag said.