KYIV, May 15 – Ukraine in the short term will not feel the impact of a trade war between the United States and China, while in the long term everything depends on the outcome of negotiations between these countries, Vitaliy Kravchuk, a senior researcher at the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting, has stated.

KYIV, May 16 – The panel of judges of the cassation business court, which is part of the Supreme Court of Ukraine, has dismissed an appeal on a point of law of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine in the case seeking to collect a fine of UAH 1.3 billion from Ukrtatnafta, Galychyna oil refining complex and four more companies for collusion at crude oil and gas condensate auctions in March-July 2015.

MOSCOW, May 16 – The dispute of Gazprom with Ukraine on a $6 billion fine imposed by Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine will be heard in Geneva, the Russian company has said in its quarterly report.

KYIV, May 16 – The negotiation between Ukraine and Russia in relation to the new contract on gas transit could resume only after the inauguration of Volodymyr Zelensky and his talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and maybe this will happen in June, Chairman of the Executive Board of Naftogaz Ukrayiny Andriy Kobolev said.

KYIV, May 16 – The chairman of the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Bohdan Danylyshyn has doubts that the NBU inflation forecast will be achieved this year.

"In the first four months of 2019 consumer inflation was 3.4%. With these trends, the achievement of the NBU inflation forecast – 6.3% as of late 2019 – looks doubtful," he wrote on his Facebook page.

KYIV, May 17 – The new wholesale power market will be launched on time, as it unlikely that legislation will be amended before July 1, National Energy Company Ukrenergo CEO Vsevolod Kovalchuk said.

KYIV, May 17 – Ukrainian asset values dropped to attractive levels and may lead to a number of new acquisitions, Sergiy Tigipko, a former deputy prime minister and the founder of the TAS Group investment holding, said.

KYIV, May 16 – The launch of 5G mobile communications in Ukraine is possible from 2020, Oleksandr Zhyvotovsky, the head of the National Commission for Communications Regulation (NCCR), has said.

KYIV, May 16 – Russia's Gazprom has a technical capability of halting the use of the Ukrainian gas transmission system (GST) even if the construction of the alternative route Nord Stream 2 is not completed, Chairman of the Executive Board of NJSC Naftogaz Ukrainy Andriy Kobolev said at the Ukraine: Game of Thrones: Final Season? international investment conference organized by Cocorde Capital in Kyiv on Thursday.

KIEV, May 19 – Employees of the Makarov Pivdenny Machine Building Plant (Pivdenmash, Dnipropetrovsk) have asked the Ukrainian authorities to take urgent measures to guarantee state orders for missile production.