KIEV, Nov. 14 - Natural gas stocks in Ukraine's underground storage facilities since the beginning of the 2016/17 heating season on October 13 and as of November 12 fell by 479.64 million cubic meters or 3.3%, to 14.252 billion cubic meters.

KIEV, Nov. 15 – Ukraine is implementing its obligations to carry out transit of Russia gas to Europe in full, and doubts expressed by the Russian president about a part of a continuous long-lasting discriminative campaign, Ukrtransgaz said in a statement on Tuesday.

KIEV, Nov. 16 – Over half of the banks inspected by the National Bank of Ukraine violate restrictions on transactions with affiliated persons.

"The regulator inspected these transactions at 58 banks as of November 1, 2016. The study showed that 27 banks carry out transactions with affiliated person observing the regulator's requirements," the NBU said.

KIEV, Nov. 16 – DTEK Energo in November seeks to boost supplies of anthracite coal from the areas beyond control of the Ukrainian government by 20% compared to October, Logistics Director Orest Lohunov said.

KIEV, Nov. 16 - Foreign direct investment in Ukraine in the form of shareholder capital totaled $45.152 billion as of October 1, 2016, $2.62 billion or 6.2% up compared to the start of the year, the State Statistics Service reported on Tuesday.

Nonresidents increased investment in Ukraine by $3.8 billion in January-September 2016 and withdrew $460 million, with the negative exchange rate difference being $660 million.

KIEV, Nov. 16 – The officers of the cyber police department of the National Police of Ukraine have terminated activities of a group of pirate online movie theatres, in particular FS.TO, after receiving claims from copyright holders – members of the Motion Picture Association of America and some Ukrainian copyright holders on violation of copyright and associated rights by one of the websites.

KIEV, Nov. 16 – Attempts to discriminate against China's CNBM in the issues of the feed-in tariff are linked to tough fight of energy market players, Director General of China's CNBM New Energy Engineering Co., Ltd. Yongzhi Chen said, commenting on the refusal to compensate the loss from the decreased tariffs to the company, while other market players received this compensation.

KIEV, Nov. 16 - The holders of PrivatBank's loan participation notes worth $150 million and a bank shareholder who bought additionally issued notes for $70 million, at a joint meeting on November 11 approved the restructuring of the securities.

KIEV, Nov. 13 – Skoda (the Czech Republic) has confirmed its readiness to participate in completing reactors three and four of Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant, Energoatom President Yuriy Nedashkovsky said.

KIEV, Nov. 13 – National Nuclear Generating Company EnergoAtom plans to raise loans of $250 million from Bank of America and Merrill Lynch as part of the project to create a centralized waste nuclear fuel storage facility, EnergoAtom President Yuriy Nedashkovsky told reporters on Friday.