KYIV, July 18 - The party of Ukraine's new president looks set to win Sunday's snap parliamentary election, repeating Volodymyr Zelenskiy's shock victory in the April presidential race that has upended politics in the war-scarred nation, Reuters reported. | More

KYIV, July 18 - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has ordered an overhaul of the process for granting Ukrainian citizenship, in response to a Russian decree expanding the number of Ukrainians who can apply for fast-track Russian passports, Reuters reported. | More

KYIV, July 18 – The National Bank of Ukraine has decided from July to lower the refinancing rate to 17% per annum from the level of 17.5% per annum, at which it had been holding it since the end of April. | More

KIEV, July 18 – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Thursday for anti-corruption bodies to investigate how the country's leading agriculture company MHP SE received substantial subsidies from the state budget, Reuters reported. | More

KYIV, July 18 – The updated macro-forecast of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) assumes receiving $2 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) under the Extended Fund Facility, as well as the issue of eurobonds worth $1 billion, deputy governor of the NBU Dmytro Sologub said. | More

KYIV, July 18 - Ukraine imposed special duties on imports via pipelines of Russian diesel fuel and liquefied petroleum gas starting from August 1, a government official said Thursday. | More

KYIV, July 18 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has improved its forecast of the country's international reserves at the end of this year from $21.2 billion to $21.7 billion, next year from $21.9 billion to $22.8 billion, at the end of 2021 from $21.8 billion to $23 billion. | More

KYIV, July 18 – Odesa Port-Side Chemical Plant will make another attempt to resume work on a give-and-take basis in August 2019, the deputy director of the plant has said at a press conference. | More

KYIV, July 17 - Ukraine said on Wednesday a rebel who organized the trailer carrying the missile that shot down a Malaysian airliner in 2014 had been captured two years ago and was now serving a sentence in Ukraine, Reuters reported. | More

KYIV, July 17 – Russia's Gazprom has boosted gas transit to the European Union through the territory of Ukraine by 25%, by 60 million cubic meters (mcm) per day, Ukrtransgaz has reported. | More