KYIV, Sept 23 – The fact that Naftogaz Ukrayiny reported net loss of UAH 11.541 billion in January-June was projected and expected amid falling prices and reduced demand for energy resources, as well as loss of revenues from gas transit, said Naftogaz Ukrayiny CEO Andriy Kobolev on Facebook.

KYIV, Sept 23 – The Naftogaz Group after the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce rendered a Second Partial Final Award revising the participants' shares in the joint property expects an outflow of its resources in amount of UAH 1.796 million to be paid to Karpatygaz LLC and Sweden's Misen Enterprises AB, according to the group's financial statements for H1 2020.

KYIV, Sept 24 – Ukraine and the Slovak Republic have signed an intergovernmental agreement on the provision of aviation operational services by their Ukrainian supplier in a certain part of the Slovak airspace relative to Uzhgorod airport.

KYIV, Sept 24 – The Rivne nuclear power plant (NPP) is inspecting the equipment of Holtec International (the United States) for the transportation of fuel assemblies to the territory of the central spent nuclear fuel storage facility (CSFSF).

KYIV, Sept 24 – Gazprom's debt to Naftogaz Ukrayiny due to its non-fulfillment of a Swedish arbitration tribunal's determination that Gazprom owes the Ukrainian company $2.56 billion had grown to $257 million as of June 30, according to Naftogaz Ukrayiny.

KYIV, Sept 24 – Legislation that regulates the non-banking financial sector requires a complete reboot, and not just making small changes, Kateryna Rozhkova, First Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, said.

KYIV, Sept 23 – Investors’ key concern about President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is his allegedly close ties with billionaire Ihor Kolomoisky, Tomas Fiala, the president of the European Business Association (EBA), said Monday.

KYIV, Sept 23 – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has urged the citizens of the country to call the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) hotline to report facts of bribery and corruption and change own mentality in relation to corruption.

KYIV, Sept 23 – The illegal cigarette market in Ukraine in 2019 could grow by 5.6 percentage points (pp), expanding to 10%.

"The illegal tobacco market in Ukraine over the past three years has grown sevenfold - from 1.1% in 2016 to 7.2% in the first half of 2019 and continues to grow. According to our forecasts, by the end of this year it may make up 10%," Manager for communications with state authorities at JTI Ukraine Yulia Yuschenko said at a press conference on Friday.

KYIV, Sept 23 – Industrial production in Ukraine in August 2019 fell by 1.7% compared with August 2018 after a decline by 0.2% in July (on July 2018) and by 2.3% in June (on June 2018), the State Statistics Service has reported.