KYIV, Sept. 18 - Ukraine will support a proposal by European Commission’s Maros Sefcovic on Russian gas supply at trilateral talks set for Sept. 19, Energy Minister Oleksiy Orzhel said on Wednesday, Reuters reported. | More

KYIV, Sept 17 – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has met with Vice President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Alain Pilloux and discussed further cooperation with the bank, expressing the hope that the bank in the coming years would boost investment in Ukraine to over EUR 1 billion a year. | More

KYIV, Sept 17 – The Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) in Ukraine in August 2019 grew by 7.6 points compared with July, to 95.6 (the values of indices can vary from 0 to 200), returning to the level before crisis of 2008, according to a study of Info Sapiens posted on the website of the company. | More

KYIV, Sept 18 – Prosecutor General Ruslan Riaboshapka has predicted that it will take around two years for the key aspect of the prosecution reform – the recertification of prosecutors, and it will result in the reduction of the number of prosecutors. | More

KYIV, Sept. 17 - Ukraine’s president called on Tuesday for a full investigation into an arson attack that has raised political tensions in a dispute over the IMF-backed nationalization of the country’s largest lender PrivatBank, Reuters reported. | More

KYIV, Sept 16 – The delegations of Ukraine and Slovakia during the talks, chaired by President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and President of the Slovak Republic Zuzana Caputova, have discussed improving the business climate, increasing investment, combating smuggling, and further reforms, the Office of the Ukrainian President has reported. | More

KYIV, Sept 16 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) predicts the new program of cooperation between Ukraine and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) would be signed by the end of this year, First Deputy NBU Governor Kateryna Rozhkova has said. | More

KYIV, Sept 17 – Businessman and co-owner of the so-called "Privat" group Ihor Kolomoisky has said he does not have any serious conflicts with EastOne Group Victor Pinchuk, with whom he earlier was in a legal dispute in a London court. | More

KYIV, Sept 18 – The state-owned Oschadbank has received enforcement orders under a ruling of Kyiv's court of appeals issued on July 17, 2019, according to which the claim of the bank seeking to recognize the award of the International Court of Arbitration in Paris regarding compensation of losses of the financial institutions over the annexation of Crimea and obtain the permit to execute it, the bank has said in a press release. | More

KYIV, Sept 18 – Ukrainian enterprises in January-August 2019 cut consumption of rolled steel by 9.9% year-over-year, to 2.830 million tons.

The Ukrmetallurgprom association said that over the period 953,400 tons was imported, or 33.7% of the domestic rolled steel market. | More