KYIV, Aug 29 - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has spoken with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy about U.S. concerns over China’s attempt to purchase a Ukrainian engine manufacturer, the State Department said on Saturday, RFE/RL reported.

KYIV, Aug 27 - The total amount of financial losses of Energoatom for the first half of the year was about UAH 10 billion, acting president of the company Petro Kotin has said.

KYIV, Aug 27 - ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih (Dnipropetrovsk region) plans to invest $700 million in the company in 2021-2024.

Mauro Longobardo, the CEO of the company, during a visit by the president of Ukraine to the enterprise with an American delegation led by U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Stephen Biegun, presented a complex of continuous casting machines Nos. 2 and 3 at the production site.

KYIV, Aug 27 - The Ukrainian Association of Producers of Ferroalloys and Other Electrometallurgy Products (UkrFA), the Federation of Metallurgists of Ukraine and the Ukrcement association have asked parliamentarians to withdraw from Parliament draft law No. 3091 on state environmental control and start developing a new bill with the involvement of specialized associations, representatives of business entities and the public.

KYIV, Aug 27 - Alfa-Bank (Kyiv) has downgraded the forecast for the fall in the real gross domestic product of Ukraine (GDP) in 2020 to 3.5% from 2% (in the April forecast) and expects a further deterioration in 2021 at the level of 3.9%.

KYIV, Aug 29 – Oilseeds harvest in Ukraine could grow by 1.5 million tons this year compared with 2017, to 21.7 million, according to the UkrAgroConsult consulting agency.

KYIV, Aug 29 – DTEK Renewables has raised EUR 90 million for construction of the first phase of Prymorska wind farm with a capacity of 100 MW in Zaporizhia region, the press service of DTEK Energy Holding reported on Tuesday.

KYIV, Aug 29 – The tranche from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the amount of $1.98 billion after the fourth review of the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) will arrive in the second half of 2018, the Finance Ministry forecast.

LONDON, Aug. 29 – The Russian hackers indicted by the U.S. special prosecutor last month have spent years trying to steal the private correspondence of some of the world’s most senior Orthodox Christian figures, The Associated Press has found, illustrating the high stakes as Kyiv and Moscow wrestle over the religious future of Ukraine.

KYIV, Aug 28 - Ukraine in the current marketing year (2017/2018 MY, September-August) will reduce sugar exports by at least 25% compared to the previous MY, the National Association of Sugar Producers Ukrtsukor reports.