KIEV, Oct. 18 - Metro Cash & Carry Ukraine LLC (Metro C&C, Kiev) is mulling investment in local production of meat and dairy food aiming to boost its market share, Metro Cash & Carry Ukraine Offer Management Director Adrian Ariciu said.

KIEV, Oct. 18 - Gazprom today increased its application for natural gas transit through the gas transportation system of Ukraine to 277 million cubic meters per day, Ukrtransgaz spokesman Maksym Biliavsky, wrote on his Facebook page.

KIEV, Oct. 18 – Ukraine and the U.S. are renewing cooperation in fulfilling the NASA contract to provide space equipment services (CRS) for the International Space Station. The modernized rocket booster of the medium class Antares launched from a U.S. flight facility on Monday.

KIEV, Oct. 19 – Ukraine has imposed sanctions against a number of Russian and Crimean companies involved in coal transportation, handling and sales.

KIEV, Oct. 19 – It is expedient for Ukraine to sell shares in strategic state-owned enterprises to foreign investors to ensure the promotion of their products in the global market, Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroysman said.

KIEV, Oct. 19 – A Ukrainian agribusiness company reports that one of its Kiev offices was attacked Friday by an armed group in an attempted hostile takeover.

KIEV, Oct. 19 – Ukraine and Poland have completed a feasibility study for a project that calls for boosting capacity of natural gas pipelines between the two countries, UkrTransGaz reported Monday.

KIEV, Oct. 16 – The Energy Community has extended the deadline for Ukrainian thermal power plants and combined heat and power supply plants to lower the concentration of pollutants in flue gases by as much as nine to 11 years.

KIEV, Oct. 19 - Avangard agricultural concern received needed debt-repayment breathing room Friday when holders representing 86.01% of the outstanding principal amount of its $200 million notes due on October 29, 2015 voted in favor of a restructuring scheme.

KIEV, Oct. 19 – Fitch Ratings has revised its outlooks on Ukraine's ratings from Positive to Stable.

In particular, the rating agency revised the Outlook on Ukraine's long-term foreign- and local-currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) to Stable from Positive and affirmed the long-term IDRs at B.