KYIV, July 16 – Developers returned to active construction of suspended commercial real estate projects in Kyiv in 2018, Deputy Head of the Strategic Consulting Department of UTG Kostiantyn Oliynyk said.

KYIV, July 16 - President Petro Poroshenko, during a meeting with representatives of the Airbus Helicopters company, which plans to supply Ukraine with 55 helicopters, has said that some of this aircraft could go for the needs of the Army.

KYIV, July 16 – Ukraine's state debt will be UAH 215 billion in 2018, the Economic Development and Trade Ministry of Ukraine has said in the forecasts for the social and economic development of Ukraine in 2019-2021 approved on July 11.

KIEV, July 15 - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is organizing a $40 million syndicated loan facility to finance the working capital needs of Vioil, a large sunflower oil exporter in Ukraine.

KIEV, July 15 – Energy and Coal Industry Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn has again warned against the hasty privatization of electricity generating company Centrenergo and some other energy companies, and said that investors should be obliged to modernize units and buy coal from state coalmines.

KIEV. July 15 – Fifteen large funds hold the major part of Ukraine's sovereign and quasi-sovereign debt, Vitaliy Lisovenko, the Ukrainian government's special envoy for state debt negotiations, said in an interview with Segodnya newspaper.

KIEV, July 16 – Ukraine's Economic Development and Trade Ministry should revise the volume of exports of scrap ferrous metal for H2 2015 and limit exports due to the major shortage of scrap metal on the Ukrainian market and the threat of stoppage at some mining and metal companies, the Federation of Metal Manufacturers of Ukraine said.

KIEV, July 16 - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is considering a $300 million loan to Ukraine that will help Naftogaz Ukrayiny buy natural gas ahead of the winter, the bank reported Thursday.

KIEV, July 16 – Boryspil International Airport in early July started work on the construction of a multi-level parking area opposite terminal D, the airport reported.

The parking area is set to open in the third quarter of 2014.

KIEV, July 15 – For the first time since January, Ukraine has seen a surplus in its foreign trade in goods, as its exports in May 2013 exceeded imports by $179.8 million, while in May 2012 there had a deficit of Ukraine's foreign trade in goods estimated at $1.328 billion, according to the State Statistics Service.