KIEV, June 9 – The banking sector in Ukraine will remain loss-making in 2016, the National Bank of Ukraine said in a first financial stability report posted on the central bank's website.

KIEV, June 9 – The National Bank of Ukraine has permitted banks to change currency exchange rates during the working day, the regulator said on its website.

The decision is outlined in NBU resolution No. 341 of June 7.

KIEV, June 10 – The price of Russian natural gas for Ukraine in the third quarter of 2016 should be lower than $177 per 1,000 cubic meters, Naftogaz director for business development Yuriy Vitrenko said.

KIEV, June 10 – State Export-Import Bank, also known as Ukreximbank, plans to put up its Kiev office at 37 Spaska Street for sale on the Kiev-based Innex commodity exchange on July 11, the exchange reported.

KIEV, June 16 – Dnipropetrovsk-based state-run Pivdenne design bureau is in talks with European companies on the development of partnerships, and has linked the scale of the presence of Ukrainian rocket and space enterprises on the EU market with Ukraine's membership of the European Space Agency.

KIEV, June 15 – Yuriy Kasich, acting director at Ukrenergo, has said that Ukraine will not pay for Russian electricity supplies to the rebel-held areas of the country's Donbas region.

DNIPROPETROVSK, June 13 - Dnipropetrovsk regional state administration deputy head Hennadiy Korban has presented to the Ukrainian presidential administration an engineering project and a feasibility study of a 1,920-kilometer wall along the Russian border with an approximate value of EUR 100 million.

IVANO-FRANKIVSK, June 16 – Authorities of Ivano-Frankivsk expect that the Saint-Gobain international group will start realizing a project on the construction of a plasterboard plant when the political situation in the country stabilizes.

KIEV, June 16 – Kyivenergo has agreed with national joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrayiny to pay the half of the debt of the Kiev's energy company for gas consumed by July 1, 2014 and the second half of the debt – by October 1, 2014 (the total debt is UAH 2.612 billion), Kyivenergo Director of Kiev Heat Networks Yevhen Hlushak said.

DNIPROPETROVSK, June 13 - Ukrainian metals companies in May 2013 increased gas consumption by 1% or by 2.6 million cubic meters compared to April 2013, to 264.9 million cubic meters.