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      The National Bank of Ukraine allows companies to buy foreign currency to repay loans to non-residents
      Sep16

      The National Bank of Ukraine allows companies to buy foreign currency to repay loans to non-residents

      The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has eased foreign exchange market restrictions for businesses, which were introduced in 2014-2015 to stabilize the national currency, namely by allowing companies to buy foreign currency to repay loans to non-residents provided the availability of own foreign currency funds on accounts. NBU Resolution No. 386,...

      Kremlin: No Donbas ceasefire promises given to Germany as Russia ”not party to conflict”
      Sep16

      Kremlin: No Donbas ceasefire promises given to Germany as Russia ”not party to conflict”

      The Kremlin has stated it did not promise Germany to ensure the ceasefire in Donbas as Russia ”is not party to the conflict”, and it`s ”the armed forces of Donbas” that oppose Ukraine, Russia`s presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told an UaPosition correspondent in Moscow. ”There is a ceasefire, which is violated… In this wording, Moscow...

      Kremlin explains why it refuses from holding Normandy Four meeting
      Sep16

      Kremlin explains why it refuses from holding Normandy Four meeting

      Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the Normandy format meeting at the highest level would be held only when there were ”real issues” to be discussed, an UaPosition correspondent in Russia reported. When asked whether high-level talks in the Normandy format could be restarted in October, Peskov said: ”We are not...

      Hryvnia strengthens on IMF decision to disburse loan tranche to Ukraine
      Sep16

      Hryvnia strengthens on IMF decision to disburse loan tranche to Ukraine

      Hryvnia quotations against the dollar on the interbank currency market on Thursday fell to UAH 26.16/26.25 to the dollar by the middle of trade, a broker at a commercial bank has told an UaPosition correspondent. Thus, the national currency has weakened by 18 kopiykas against the U.S. dollar as compared to the opening of trade. Hryvnia quotes...

      Ukraine may abandon coal supplies from ATO zone provided diversification – Energy Minister
      Sep15

      Ukraine may abandon coal supplies from ATO zone provided diversification – Energy Minister

      Ukraine`s Energy Minister Ihor Nasalyk says Ukraine can do without any coal supplies from the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) zone if it increases consumption of gas coal instead of deficit grade of anthracite coal, of which the reserves are located mainly in the occupied territory of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Further, the minister pointed to...

      Ukrainian Foreign Minister: German, French FMs don`t force Ukraine to give special status to Donbas
      Sep15

      Ukrainian Foreign Minister: German, French FMs don`t force Ukraine to give special status to Donbas

      Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has said that German and French foreign ministers do not force Ukraine to provide a special status to Donbas immediately. ”They understand that we need to move by political means and through the release of the hostages. There will be nothing without these components. That`s what they mean, speaking of...

      Deficit of Ukraine`s foreign trade in goods estimated at almost $1 bln
      Sep15

      Deficit of Ukraine`s foreign trade in goods estimated at almost $1 bln

      Deficit of Ukraine`s foreign trade in goods in January-July 2016 amounted to $947.4 million as compared to a surplus of $485.4 million in the same period last year, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine reported on its website. Goods exports from Ukraine in January-July 2016 fell by 10.5% year-over-year (y-o-y), to $19.545 billion, while goods...

      IMF okays third disbursement to Ukraine under EFF
      Sep15

      IMF okays third disbursement to Ukraine under EFF

      Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has announced that the International Monetary Fund`s Executive Board has approved a third disbursement to Ukraine under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) program. ”The Fund`s decision paves the way to the allocation of U.S. financial aid worth $1 billion, macro-financial assistance worth an additional sum of...

      Russian troops attack Ukraine 50 times in last day, use 152mm artillery and mortars
      Sep15

      Russian troops attack Ukraine 50 times in last day, use 152mm artillery and mortars

      Combined Russian-separatist forces attacked Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 50 times in the past 24 hours, including 20 times in the Mariupol sector, 26 times in the Donetsk sector and four times in the Luhansk sector, according to the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters. In the Donetsk sector, the enemy...

      EU Council to consider visa-free regime for Ukrainians on Oct 11 – MFA
      Sep15

      EU Council to consider visa-free regime for Ukrainians on Oct 11 – MFA

      The issue of granting Ukraine visa-free regime should be considered at the meeting of Justice and Home Affairs Council of the European Union, Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine Olena Zerkal said on Ukrainian TV Channel 5. ”The issue of a visa-free regime is yet to be considered at the meeting of Justice and Home Affairs Council of the European...