KIEV, Oct. 17 – Ukraine suspended pumping of gas to underground gas storage facilities due to the start of the 2016/17 heating season and started pumping it from them, Ukrtransgaz spokesman Maksym Beliavsky said on Facebook.

KIEV, Oct. 18 – The monetary policy in Ukraine should be revised, said Banking Department Chairman at Hetman Kiev National Economic University and former first deputy head of the parliamentary committee for finances and banking operations Stanislav Arzhevitin.

KIEV, Oct. 18 – The situation on the currency market is developing positively, which gives grounds to expect further market liberalization steps, according to Serhiy Nikolaichuk, director of the monetary policy and economic analysis department of the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, Oct. 16 - Ukraine on Friday approved a plan to reform the national energy company Naftogaz Ukrayiny, taking the country closer to securing $800 million in loans for natural gas purchases.

KIEV, Oct. 15 - Monetary base in Ukraine in September decreased by 2.3%, to UAH 321.2 billion, while money supply increased by 1.7%, to UAH 964.7 billion, the National Bank of Ukraine reported.

KIEV, Oct. 15 – Ukraine's Antimonopoly Committee has allowed the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to accumulate more than 25% of shares in Raiffeisen Bank Aval (Kiev), according to the website of the AMC.

KIEV, Oct. 16 – Ukraine exported agricultural products worth $2 billion to the European Union in January-July, said Agricultural Policy and Food Minister Oleksiy Pavlenko.

KIEV, Oct. 16 - Philip Morris International Inc. (PMI), the world's large tobacco producer, cut cigarette shipments in Ukraine by 27.5% in July-September 2015 year-over-year, to 4.704 billion cigarettes.

KIEV, Oct. 18 - Vindkraft Ukraina LLC plans to build wind power plants with a total capacity of 18 MW on the Black Sea coast in 2013, the co-owner of the company, Fredrik Svinhufvud, said at the International Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Forum REF-2012 held in Kiev.

KIEV, Oct. 18 – Ukraine plans to announce tenders in December to sign Product Sharing Agreements for the Slobozhanske oil and gas field (Kharkiv and Poltava regions) and Prykerchensky shallow field (the Black Sea shelf), Ecology and Natural Resources Minister Eduard Stavytsky said.