KYIV, Sept 20 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) urges the continued reforms of national energy company Naftogaz Ukrayiny and believes that Ukraine cannot afford to delay reforms any further.

KYIV, Sept 20 - Economic growth in Ukraine in 2017 could exceed the forecast of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), published in the inflation report for July 2017, the NBU has said.

KYIV, Sept 21 – The international vertically integrated pipe and wheel company Interpipe in the period when the duties on pipes were in effect decreased deliveries to Kazakhstan in 2012-2016 from 220,000 tons to 300 tons.

KIEV, Sept. 22 - CNBM International Corporation of China will invest up to $2 billion in modernization of Ukraine’s coal extraction and power generation and distribution sectors, Energy Minister Nasalyk said.

KIEV, Sept. 20 – Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers has ordered the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry to create a working group with involvement of other agencies and law enforcers to check the lawfulness of a tender to select an investor to develop the Yuzivska field (Kharkiv and Donetsk regions).

KIEV, Sept. 22 – State-run Kiev Design Bureau Luch, part of the Ukroboronprom State Concern, jointly with Poland's Mesko is designing the light mobile antitank missile system Pirat with laser guidance system.

KIEV, Sept. 21 - Industrial production in Ukraine fell 13.4% year-on-year in August after falling 13.4% in July, 18.1% in June, 20.7% in May, and 21.7% in April, the State Statistics Service reported.

KIEV, Sept. 21 – The Antimonopoly Committee has started an investigation into the monopoly of DTEK energy holding on the electricity market, Committee head Yuriy Terentyev said at a press conference in Kiev.

KIEV, Sept. 21 – Fitch Ratings on September 18, 2015, downgraded PrivatBank's (Privat) Long-term foreign currency Issuer Default Rating to 'RD' (Restricted Default) from 'C' on completion of the bank's $200 million eurobond restructuring, Fitch said in a statement.

KIEV, Sept. 22 - The surplus of Ukraine's foreign trade in goods in July demonstrated a positive trend for a sixth month in a row and amounted to $180 million against $384.5 million in June, $295.9 million in May and $229.3 million in April 2015, the State Statistics Service reported.