KIEV, June 19 - Ukraine has increased gas inventories in underground storage 34% since the end of the heating season, according to operational data from Ukrtransgaz.

KIEV, June 21 - Roshen's Lipetsk confectionery factory, warehouse for finished products and LLC Roshen trading housing have completely shut down their operations in Russia, the Ukrainian confectionery company said on its website.

KIEV, June 21 – The National Bank of Ukraine has placed Eurobank (Kiev) on its list of insolvent banks.

The regulator said last week that this is outlined in NBU Board's decision No. 73 of June 17.

KIEV, June 21 - Ten people suspected of misappropriating natural gas have been remanded into custody in Ukraine.

KIEV, June 21 – A deputy from the Petro Poroshenko bloc in parliament Volodymyr Ariev has called on the Prosecutor General(PGO) to launch an investigation into possible tax evasion and illegal transfer of funds by the former owners of Concern Stirol, Mykola and Ihor Yankovsky.

KIEV, June 21 – Antonov State Enterprise will equip next generation An-148/158/178 family jets with aircraft avionics made by Canada's CMC Electronics.

KIEV, June 21 – At a meeting of the WTO committee for technical barriers to trade, Ukraine again raised the issue of restrictions imposed by Russia on imports of confectionery products, dairy products, beer, juices, salt and wallpaper, and requested the explanations from Moscow on the matter.

KIEV, June 21 – Japan's Fujikura, the electrical equipment manufacturer, intends to launch one more automotive parts plant in Yavoriv District of Lviv region in October.

KIEV, June 19 – The State Property Fund has ensured that public joint-stock company Zaporizhia aluminum plant (ZAlK) is guarded by the Interior Ministry's structures regarding the return of a controlling stake in the plant to state ownership, the fund told Interfax-Ukraine on Thursday, referring to SPF head Ihor Bilous before a meeting of the parliamentary ad hoc commission for privatization.

MOSCOW/KIEV, June 19 - Masked people searched an office of Prominvestbank, the Ukrainian subsidiary of Russia's Vnesheconombank, or VEB, on Thursday, seizing files and hard drives, VEB chief Vladimir Dmitriyev said in an interview with the Rossiya 24 television on Friday.