KIEV, Aug. 20 – Ukraine, with the participation of Deutsche Bank at a primary auction on August 15, placed 2.5-year hryvnia-pegged government domestic loan bonds worth over UAH 2 billion among nonresidents, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk told reporters.

KIEV, Aug. 20 – The National Bank of Ukraine, effective August 21, 2014, has upped the ceiling limit to 100% from 50% for the mandatory sale of receipts of companies and private entrepreneurs in foreign currency on the Ukrainian interbank forex market.

KIEV, Aug. 21 - Prominent representatives of international business community have called on the Ukrainian and Russian governments to find a compromise and a peaceful solution of settling the current conflict.

KIEV, Aug. 21 – Shell has postponed the start of work to drill a first wildcat on the Yuzivske field (Kharkiv and Donetsk regions) due to the force majeure situation on the field, the Ukrainian representative office of the company has told Interfax-Ukraine.

ASTANA, Aug. 20 - Kazakhstan has temporarily banned poultry imports from Ukraine's Myronivska Poultry Farm, the Kazakh Agriculture Ministry said.

"Veterinary permits issued earlier to the Myronivska Poultry Farm were suspended on August 1 pending an inquiry," the ministry said in a statement.

KIEV, Aug. 20 – The total losses of Ukrainian budgets of all levels from the ban on the supply of Roshen Corporation's confectionery to Russia may exceed UAH 1 billion by the end of the year (around $123 million at the current rate), Roshen Director for Development Yevhen Vovchanovsky said.

KIEV, Aug. 22 – The Cabinet of Ministers has approved plans to privatize Simferopol combined heat power plant, Kamysh-Burunska combined heat power plant and Saksky steam-gas power plant, which are part of Crimea Generating Systems (Simferopol, Crimea), State Property Fund chairman Oleksandr Riabchenko said.

KIEV, Aug. 22 – The Energy and Coal Industry said it expects in Q4 to sign a credit agreement with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and European Investment Bank on financing the construction of the Kaniv pump storage, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytsky said.

KIEV, Aug. 22 – The expenses on the start of mass production of the Ukrainian Oplot main battle tank at the Kharkiv-based Malyshev Plant are estimated at $30 million, which is about one-fourth the expenses on the start of mass production of similar modern tanks in other countries, Malyshev Plant Director General Vadym Fedosov said.

KIEV, Aug. 22 – The switch of the Federal Customs Service of Russia back to normal customs clearance will require time before it eliminates the backlog at the borders, the Federation of Employers of Ukraine said.