KYIV, Dec 14 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has relaxed the rules for importing cash foreign currency by residents to Ukraine.

KHARKIV, Dec 13 - Both Poland and Ukraine are against the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, Polish President Andrzej Duda said.

KIEV, Dec. 14 - The major pipe producing enterprises of Ukraine in January-November 2015 cut production, according to live data, by 40.3% compared to the same period last year, to 777,000 tons.

KIEV, Dec. 16 – The deficit of Ukraine's foreign trade with goods, following a surplus posted in the past seven months, reached $356 million, which was the worst indicator since December 2014, the State Statistics Service reported on Tuesday.

KIEV, Dec. 16 - Ukraine accused Russia on Wednesday of looting two of its oil rigs after Crimea-based oil and gas firm Chornomornaftogaz moved the equipment off the coast of the annexed peninsula into Russian waters, Reuters reported.

MOSCOW, Dec. 16 - President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday signed a decree suspending Russia's free-trade agreement with Ukraine as of January 1, the same day Kiev is set to enter a similar trade deal with Brussels, AFP reported.

MOSCOW, Dec. 15 - Gazprombank has demanded early repayment of a loan of $842.5 million to Dmytro Firtash's Ostchem, the bank said in a statement.

KIEV, Dec. 16 - Metinvest B. V. (the Netherlands), the parent company of international vertically integrated mining and metal group Metinvest, has received a permit to acquire public joint-stock company Evraz Dniprodzerzhynsky Coke and Chemical Plant (Dnipropetrovsk region) from the Commission for the Protection of Competition of Serbia.

KIEV, Dec. 16 – Transactions on the interbank currency market at exchange rates of UAH 17-18/$1 will be considered by the National Bank of Ukraine to be an intention to destabilize the market.

KIEV, Dec. 13 – Vadym Novinsky's Smart-Holding says it hopes to secure shipbuilding orders from Russia worth $4 billion by 2020, Smart-Holding CEO Alexey Pertin said during a meeting between Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and Ukrainian industrialists in Kiev on Friday.