KIEV, June 13 – A former top manager of the East European Energy Company (VETEK) Andriy Koshel, who was detained on the Ukrainian-Polish border, is suspected of embezzlement of property through abuse of office and forming a criminal gang.

KIEV, June 13 – The United Arab Emirates has denied reports of its suspension of imports of Ukrainian food products, according to Ukraine's State Service for Food Safety and Consumers' Rights Protection.

KIEV, June 13 – At least seven companies which signed the required documents with Ukraine's State Property Fund are showing serious interest in the purchase of public joint-stock company Odessa Port-Side Plant at a tender scheduled for July 26, SPF head Ihor Bilous said.

KIEV, June 13 – Ukraine's State Property Fund has put 99.567% of Odessa Port-Side Plant up for sale. The starting price is UAH 13.175 billion, (about $530 million) according to an announcement in the Vidomosti Pryvatyzatsii privatization bulletin.

KHARKIV, June 15 – The owner and president of DCH Group, Oleksandr Yaroslavsky, who holds a controlling stake in Kharkiv Tractor Plant, says he will be able to reopen the plant without the help of outside investors.

KIEV, June 15 – Naftogaz Ukrainy has announced a reverse auction to buy natural gas produced in Ukraine.

The state holding reported on Tuesday that it seeks to buy up to 200 million cubic meters of gas produced in July.

KIEV, June 15 – Coal has not been supplied from occupied territories of Donbas to thermal power plants since the beginning of this month, reports Dmytro Vovk, head of the National Commission for Energy, Housing and Utilities Services Regulation (NCER).

KIEV, June 14 – Nine companies have submitted their bids for a tender called by gas producer Ukrgazvydobuvannia to buy services of 100 hydrofracking operations in 2016-2017.

KIEV, June 14 – Assets of Ukrainian financial companies increased by 15.7% or UAH 10.492 billion year-over-year in Q1, reaching UAH 77.492 billion, the national commission for financial service markets regulation reported.

KIEV, June 15 - The surplus of Ukraine's foreign trade in goods amounted to $80.3 million in April, the State Statistics Service reported.

The deficit of Ukraine's foreign trade in goods in January through April totaled $881 billion compared to a surplus of $42 million in January through April 2015.