KYIV, Jan 11 - Two large ships, both loaded with U.S. coal, have arrived in Ukraine on Tuesday and Sunday, helping the country alleviate major coal shortages during the high-demand season, DTEK Energo, a power and mining group, reported.

KYIV, Jan 10 – The bank accounts of ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih (AMKR, Dnipropetrovsk region) remain blocked due to the actions of the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine and a court order, however, thanks to the parent company ArcelorMittal, workers were paid wages.

KYIV, Jan 11 - The State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine plans to conduct an inspection survey of the centralized spent nuclear fuel storage facility in January, on the results of which it will consider the issue of licensing the storage facility, acting chairman of the inspectorate Oleh Korikov said.

KYIV, Jan 11 - Power production in the integrated power system of Ukraine in 2021, according to recent data, increased by 5.2% compared to 2020 - up to 156.576 billion kWh, according to data from the Ministry of Energy.

KYIV, Jan 10 - The growth of consumer prices in Ukraine in 2021 accelerated to 10% from 5% in 2020 and 4.1% in 2019, the State Statistics Service reported.

According to its data, in December this year, inflation fell to 0.6% from 0.8% in November, while in December last it was even higher - 0.9%.

KYIV, Jan 15 – Ukraine plans to join in the services and partnerships of the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) in order to get full access to the alliance's procurement system, Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Dmytro Kuleba said.

KYIV, Jan 16 - Ukraine will probably scrap plans of building $200 million new natural gas pipeline to Poland and will use existing links and backhauling to meet demand for imports, Serhiy Makohon, the head of GTSOU, the state-owned gas shipping company, said Thursday.

KYIV, Jan 16 – Turboatom, the maker of turbines for nuclear power plants, and four fossil burning power plants, Kherson, Dniprovska, Kryvy Rih and Severodonetsk, will be removed from the 2019 list privatization, an official said.

KYIV, Jan 15 – Director General of the Boryspil International Airport Pavlo Riabikin has said that airlines, which generate the passenger flow in Ukraine and help the Boryspil airport to develop as an international hub, should be encouraged.

KYIV, Jan 15 – Nibulon (Mykolaiv), a large grain trader in Ukraine, in 2018 increase agricultural production by 20% compared with 2017, to 335,000 tons.