KYIV, Aug. 17 - President Petro Poroshenko has ordered an urgent investigation into a contested report that a factory in Ukraine may have supplied powerful missile engines to North Korea in breach of international sanctions, The Irish Times reported Thursday. | More

KYIV, Aug 16 – Ukrzaliznytsia, the state railroad company, published revised draft of financial plan for 2017 suggesting net profit may decline to UAH 59.8 million by the end of the year, down from UAH 1.2 billion previously projected. | More

KYIV, Aug 17 – The order of Ukraine's Infrastructure Ministry on the specifics of transportation of hazardous freight by rail could block operation of the fuel market from September, the Ukrainian Oil & Gas Association has said. | More

KYIV, Aug 17 – Hryvnia-denominated loans issued by banks to individuals grew by 13.4% in January-June 2017, and those issued to companies – by 2.6%, according to a survey of the banking sector by the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) posted on its website. | More

DNIPRO, Aug 17 - Coking plants in Ukraine imported 6 million tons of coking coal and coal concentrate in January-July 2017, which is 17% or 1 million tons down from a year ago. | More

KYIV, Aug 17 – Imports of passenger cars to Ukraine in the first half of 2017 almost doubled year-over-year, to 69,700, the Ukrautoprom association has reported. | More

KYIV, Aug 16 – State-owned companies transferred UAH 15.5 billion to the national budget last year, according to the website of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade. | More

KYIV, Aug 16 - Raiffeisen Bank Aval will issue a loan of UAH 514 million to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to finance the program of lending to Ukrainian companies in the hryvnia, according to the website of Raiffeisen Bank Aval. | More

KYIV, Aug 16 - The European Central Bank (ECB) has allowed Ukraine in the person of the Finance Ministry to obtain qualifying participation in PrivatBank (Latvia), according to the website of the Ministry of Finance. | More

KYIV, Aug 16 – Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk has become a co-owner of the television channel Espreso.TV, according tot information contained in the State Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs. | More