KYIV, July 18 – The updated macro-forecast of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) assumes receiving $2 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) under the Extended Fund Facility, as well as the issue of eurobonds worth $1 billion, deputy governor of the NBU Dmytro Sologub said.

KIEV, July 18 – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Thursday for anti-corruption bodies to investigate how the country's leading agriculture company MHP SE received substantial subsidies from the state budget, Reuters reported.

KYIV, July 18 – The National Bank of Ukraine has decided from July to lower the refinancing rate to 17% per annum from the level of 17.5% per annum, at which it had been holding it since the end of April.

KYIV, July 17 – The Kyiv-Riga rail route through Minsk and Vilnius will start to run from September 28 this year, according to the Infrastructure Ministry's website.

KYIV, July 17 – Naftogaz of Ukraine is not ready to negotiate a contract on gas transit rates after 2019 in a bundle with possible amicable agreements related to the disputes considered by the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, CEO of Naftogaz Andriy Kobolev has said.

KYIV, July 17 – Ukraine's Minister of Foreign Affairs Pavlo Klimkin says Russia's attempts to reach an agreement with Kyiv through an out-of-court settlement on the cases where the Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce has already granted its awards will not succeed.

KYIV, July 17 - Ukrainian metallurgical enterprises intend to keep steel smelting in August 2018 at the level of planned indicators of July, at 1.8 million tons.

KYIV, July 18 - Gazprom will probably delay negotiations on the extension of the contract for gas transit through Ukraine, expecting possible changes in the country's leadership and policy, Andriy Kobolev, the head of Naftogaz, said.

KYIV, July 18 – Boeing will supply components for Ukraine's regional new generation An-148/158/178 planes developed and produced by state-owned state Antonov concern based in Kyiv.

KYIV, July 18 – Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers on Wednesday banned the payment of bonuses and awards in state companies.

"I propose ... prohibiting the payment of bonuses and rewards in state-owned companies in Ukraine. I think that salaries and bonuses should be worthy ... But as for greed, excess, I cannot support that," Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said.