The most critical situation with payments for centralized heating and water supplies is observed in Kyiv's Shevchenkivsky and Desniansky districts.
The High Court of London has ordered Ukrainian tycoon Rinat Akhmetov's SCM financial and industrial group to pay extra $760 million on June 26, 2018, for Ukraine's telecoms giant Ukrtelecom and rejected SCM's counterclaims over the termination of the contract for the purchase of the telecoms operator, according to the news portal Liga.net.
A Dutch court has issued a provisional order to freeze the Netherlands-based companies of the flagship business group, Systems Capital Management (SCM), owned by Ukraine's richest man, Rinat Akhmetov, in connection with a long-running $820 million lawsuit, according to Reuters.
Rinat Akhmetov, Ukraine's richest man, has been served with an order from a Cyprus court freezing $820m of his assets in a long-running legal dispute with a rival over the country's biggest fixed-line telecoms group, according to The Financial Times.
The Ornex company, which is part of Ukrainian tycoon Rinat Akhmetov's System Capital Management (SCM), has bought a blocking stake in DTEK Dniprooblenergo, a power distributor in Dnipropetrovsk region, from the Ukrainian government for UAH 1 billion, or about US$39 million, according to the State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPF).
Ukraine's State Property Fund (SPF) has lodged a lawsuit with a Kyiv-based economic court against Ukrainian businessman Rinat Akhmetov's ESU company and the State Export-Import Bank of Ukraine to cancel the sale of shares of Ukraine's telecoms giant Ukrtelecom and recover UAH 2.17 billion, or US$82.1 million, in fines, according to the SPF's press service.
An unknown person is reported to have shot at Hromadske journalist Maksym Opanasenko five times while a TV crew was collecting information for an investigative program "Slidstvo.Info," according to the Ukrainian media outlet Hromadske.