KIEV, July 15 – Ukraine on Friday more than quadrupled its daily order of natural gas imports from Slovakia, from 0.484 million to 2.048 million cubic meters, the Slovak gas transmission system operator Eustream has reported.

KIEV, July 15 – System Capital Management (Donetsk), and Smart-holding have announced the completion of the merger of their metal and mining assets under Metinvest B.V. (the Netherlands), the holding company of the Metinvest Group.

KIEV, July 15 – The National Bank of Ukraine has canceled a requirement according to which it had the right to restrict banks in their operations on the interbank currency market or disconnect them from the transactions confirmation system on the interbank currency market, the Independent Association of Banks of Ukraine reported.

KIEV, July 16 – The United States was the No. 1 importer of Ukrainian small arms in 2012, as in 2011, the State Service on Export Control reported.

KIEV, July 16 – The protection of intellectual property rights and combating piracy in Ukraine is of current importance and of a systemic character, although solving the problem will require a lot of time and money, Andriy Honcharuk, an advisor to the Ukrainian president and head of the chief department for foreign affairs at the presidential administration.

KIEV, July 17 - The Ukrainian government will soon consider a bill on additional payments during the purchase by Ukrainian citizens of domestic cars, Deputy Prime Minister Yuriy Boyko said.

KIEV, July 17 – Ukraine and Russia are preparing to create a joint venture for the construction of an upgraded version of the An-124-100 Ruslan heavy transport aircraft, Deputy Prime Minister Yuriy Boyko said.

KIEV, July 17 - Ukraine will dramatically reduce the financial gap at the state-owned energy company Naftogaz Ukrayiny in 2013, Energy and Fuel Minister Eduard Stavytskiy said Wednesday, citing a government resolution.

KIEV, July 16 – Ukraine's national grid boosted electricity generation by 3.5% year-on-year in H1, to 100.136 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh), an Energy and Coal Industry Ministry source told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, July 16 – The Defense Ministry will soon carry out sea trials of the Zaporizhia submarine.

"The putting to sea of the Zaporizhia submarine is a significant event, as a whole generation of the Naval Forces, the submarine force, is being revived. In the near future, this submarine is to submerge and sea trials will be held underwater," the first deputy chief of the general staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Vice Admiral Ihor Kabanenko, said at a press conference in Kiev on Monday.