KIEV, July 17 - Ukraine will fully implement the contract signed in 2011 for the supply to Thailand of new Oplot-T tracked armored vehicles manufactured at Malyshev Plant, Ukroboronprom state concern said.

KIEV, July 17 – Ukraine and the European Union created a team that will study the country’s vast underground gas storage facilities to see how to effectively use them over the next 20 years.

KIEV, July 15 – Inflation, devaluation and business expectations of business circles of Ukraine improved in the second quarter of 2016.

Such estimates are recorded in a survey conducted by the National Bank of Ukraine among the country's business leaders in the second quarter of 2016.

KIEV, July 15 – A hearing to determine pretrial confinement terms and bail for two suspects involved in the alleged embezzlement of from the Odessa Portside Chemical Plant (OPCP), Naftogaz top executive Serhiy Pereloma and OPCP First Deputy Director Mykola Schurykov, has been set for July 15.

KIEV, July 14 – Iran has invited Ukraine to build 1,000 kilometers of railroad tracks in Iran and participate in projects worth $10 billion provided by Teheran for modernization of railway infrastructure and development of intermodal transportation.

KIEV, July 14 – Ukraine on Wednesday increased daily imports of natural gas from European countries to 2.1 million cubic meters, Ukrtransgaz spokesman Maksym Beliavsky wrote on his Facebook page.

KIEV, July 15 – Energy and Coal Industry Minister Ihor Nasalyk forecasts that electricity exports from Ukraine to Moldova and Belarus may resume in October.

"Late in September or early in October, we'll resume electricity exports to Belarus and Moldova," he said on NewsOne.

KIEV, July 15 – The Ukrainian Energy and Coal Ministry assures it will maintain Ukraine's power grids without power cuts amid electricity consumption peaks due to the heat, but says it is necessary to create an anti-crisis headquarters to ease decision-making, Minister Ihor Nasalyk said.

KIEV, July 15 – Ukraine on Friday more than quadrupled its daily order of natural gas imports from Slovakia, from 0.484 million to 2.048 million cubic meters, the Slovak gas transmission system operator Eustream has reported.

KIEV, July 15 – System Capital Management (Donetsk), and Smart-holding have announced the completion of the merger of their metal and mining assets under Metinvest B.V. (the Netherlands), the holding company of the Metinvest Group.