KIEV, June 22 – Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers has proposed to increase expenses and revenues of Ukraine's national budget in 2017 by UAH 26 billion or some 3.5%, including by UAH 25 billion for the general fund. The relevant bill has been submitted to the Verkhovna Rada on Wednesday.

KIEV, June 23 - The Ukrainian National Bank is expecting the International Monetary Fund board to make a decision on another tranche of $1 billion for Ukraine under the EFF program at its meeting in July, Ukrainian National Bank Governor Valeriya Gontareva said at a press conference in Kiev on Thursday.

KIEV, June 23 - Ukrainian monetary-policy makers have cut borrowing costs for a third month, citing a slowdown in inflation and a rebound of the national currency, and promised more easing to come in order to boost lending.

KIEV, June 21 – Ukraine's nominal gross domestic product in the first quarter of 2016 amounted to UAH 453.2 billion and the change in the deflator came to 20.5%, the State Statistics Service reported.

KIEV, June 23 – President Petro Poroshenko and United States Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland discussed in Kiev on Wednesday, June 22 the agenda of the forthcoming meeting of the Ukrainian president and U.S. President Barack Obama at the summit in Warsaw.

WASHINGTON, June 23 – A meeting between Finance Ministry of Ukraine, the IMF and the Creditors' Committee on restructuring Ukraine's debt obligations will take place in Washington next week, June 29-July 3, the IMF reported.

PARIS, June 23 - French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel lamented the "insufficient" progress in resolving the Ukraine crisis after a telephone conversation Monday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to a source close to the French president, AFP reported.

BRUSSELS, June 23 - Ukraine has appealed to the European Union over an agreement between Slovak pipeline operator Eustream and Russia's Gazprom that it says violates EU law in allowing Gazprom to prevent reverse flows back to Ukraine in a key pipeline, Reuters reported.

KIEV, June 22 – The Ukrainian Justice Ministry has not received any query from Yukos concerning the ruling of a Belgian arbitration court in the Yukos Universal Limited lawsuit, Justice Minister Pavlo Petrenko has said.

NEW YORK, June 22 – The stabilization of the situation on the financial market and eliminating the imbalance of the current account has allowed the National Bank of Ukraine, while preserving the flexible exchange rate policy, to buy over the past four months $1 billion dollars for its net foreign exchange reserves, NBU Governor Valeriya Gontareva said.