KYIV, July 15 – Ukraine supports the U.S. decisions aimed at stopping the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.

KYIV, July 14 – Parliament has passed at second reading and in full draft law No. 2426 on changing several laws and legal acts pertaining to the metallurgical raw materials and scrap markets during its plenary session on Tuesday.

KYIV, July 14 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) continues to coordinate the deal on the purchase by Ukrainian businessman, ex-shareholder of UkrSibbank Olekasandr Yaroslavsky of a 100% stake in Credit Dnipro Bank and waits for a number of answers to additional questions, acting Governor of the NBU Kateryna Rozhkova said.

KYIV, July 14 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) proposes to begin restructuring loans for which "credit holidays" are in effect for the quarantine period, even if the quarantine will be extended after July 31 to avoid a critical increase in imbalance of the banking system, said the acting governor of the NBU, Kateryna Rozhkova.

KYIV, July 15 – Ukraine was able to sell Dnipro Hotel, a major state-owned hotel in downtown Kyiv, at an online auction for record UAH 1.1 billion, 14 times more that originally expected, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

KYIV, July 15 – Electricity generation by all power plants of state-owned enterprise Energoatom in January-June 2019 increased by 6.5% compared to the same period of 2018, to 42.776 billion kWh.

KYIV, July 15 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny and its member companies in January-June 2019 paid UAH 58.6 billion in taxes and dividends to the national budget, the press service of the company has reported.

KYIV, July 13 - Japanese corporation Sumitomo will acquire a 51% stake in Spectr-Agro LLC (Kyiv region), a supplier of mineral fertilizers, seeds and equipment to Ukrainian agricultural enterprises.

KYIV, July 13 – The Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce has issued a partial award in the case initiated by Ukrgazvydobuvannia (UGV) against LLC Karpatygaz and its shareholder Misen Enterprises AB (Sweden) regarding termination of a joint venture (JV) agreement, Naftogaz Ukrainy said in a statement.

KYIV, July 13 - The European Business Association (EBA) is concerned about a halt to chemical giant Dniproazot's work, which could lead to the suspension of production of beverages by several large plants.