KIEV, June 27 – The ecological situation in Donbas is dire and a critical situation has developed with coal mines located in temporarily occupied areas in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, Ukraine's representative to the humanitarian subgroup of the Minsk Trilateral Contact Group (TCG) and Deputy Speaker of Ukraine's Verkhonva Rada Iryna Gerashchenko said.

KIEV, June 27 - Major tasks of the future head of state-owned PrivatBank include the development of a strategy for growth, preparations for successful inclusion of foreign investors in its capital within several years and further efforts to clear up the bank from toxic assets, acting National Bank of Ukraine Governor Yakiv Smolii said.

KIEV, June 27 – President Petro Poroshenko has vetoed a draft law amending several legislative acts of Ukraine for stabilizing activities of the state joint-stock company Chornomornaftogaz in connection with the temporary occupation of Ukrainian territory. The bill would have established a moratorium on expropriating debts of the enterprise.

KIEV, June 29 – The Ukraine-Canada Free Trade Agreement enters force on August 1, according to an official note from Canada to Ukraine's embassy [in Canada], Ukraine's ambassador to Canada Andriy Shevchenko said.

KIEV, June 29 – Phishing and updates of the popular M.E.Doc software (reports to Ukraine's Fiscal Service, electronic correspondence) were the main two means used by the new Petya virus, which infected hundreds of Ukrainian companies and banks, the cyber police unit of Ukraine's National Police said on its Facebook page on June 28.

KIEV, June 27 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny has completed a transaction to transfer UAH 13.3 billion in dividends for 2016 to the national budget along with UAH 2.4 billion in advance payment of corporate tax on the dividends.

KIEV, June 29 – Ukraine has transferred Assigned Amount Units (AAUs) into a retirement account to comply with the requirements of the Kyoto Protocol's first commitment period, the press service of the Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry has reported.

KIEV, June 29 – Ukrenergo CEO Vsevolod Kovalchuk has signed an agreement on conditions of the future merger of the power grids of Ukraine and Moldova with the energy system of continental Europe, the state-owned Ukrainian company reported.

KIEV, June 24 – The National Bank of Ukraine, Ukraine's Economic Development and Trade Ministry, Deposit Guarantee Fund and Transparency International Ukraine (TI Ukraine) have signed a memorandum of cooperation to create and introduce a new electronic trading platform using standards and principles of the ProZorro electronic procurement system.

KIEV, June 28 - Ukraine is facing a power sector crisis and needs to limit energy consumption during the next two months to avoid power cutoffs, the energy and coal sector ministry warned Monday.