KYIV, Aug 13 – State-owned enterprise State Hydrographic Service of Ukraine (Derzhhydrografia) of the State Service of Marine and River Transport of Ukraine has initiated the creation of a marine classified region around the occupied Crimean peninsula to ban entrance of ships to all ports of the peninsula, according to a posting on the official website of the enterprise. | More

PARIS, Aug. 13 - France hopes President Vladimir Putin will respond positively to moves by his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy to end the five-year-old conflict in the country's east, AFP reported Tuesday citing a French presidency official. | More

KYIV, Aug 13 – Ukraine has not closed off a tributary of the Dnipro River, but the canal along which water was supplied to Russia-occupied Crimea. Ukraine has every right to do this, the Ukrainian president's representative for Crimea Anton Korynevych said. | More

KYIV, Aug 13 – A group to negotiate extension of Russian gas transit via Ukraine will be set up after Ukraine forms a new government but it would be irresponsible not to have a Plan B in case no agreements are reached, Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Secretary Oleksandr Danyliuk said in a statement. | More

KYIV, Aug 13 – Ukraine in January-July 2019 decreased exports of ferroalloys 2.7% compared to the same period last year, to 533,217 tons.

According to customs statistics made public by the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine, exports of ferroalloys in monetary terms fell by 5.8%, to $585.020 million. | More

KYIV, Aug 13 – Ukraine's railway operator, Ukrzaliznytsia, has completed the first stage of negotiations with GE Transportation of the United States about the acquisition of the next batch of locomotives, the company said in a statement on its website. | More

KYIV, Aug 12 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit Kyiv on August 18-20 to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, The Times of Israel said. | More

KYIV, Aug. 13 - The Ukrainian Grain Association (UGA) forecast growth in grain and oilseeds production in the country in the 2019/20 agricultural year to 95.2 million tons, up from the previous forecast of 94.7 million tons. | More

KYIV, Aug 12 – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has recommended that heads of the Main Department of the National Police and the SBU Security Service's Directorate in Zhytomyr region tender resignations over illegal amber mining. | More

KYIV, Aug 12 – Ukraine boosted its underground gas stocks 1.9 times or 7.874 billion cubic meters (bcm), to 16.619 bcm between April 4, when the last heating season ended, and August 10, according to preliminary data from Ukrtransgaz. | More