KYIV, Dec 13 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) announced on Thursday an increase in its key policy rate to 13.5% from 13%, citing an inflation rise to 11.2% in November. This move surprised the market, where most participants had expected the rate to remain unchanged at 13%.

KYIV, Dec 13 – Ukraine expects to receive approximately $8.5 billion in international financing from its partners by December of this year, National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Governor Andriy Pyshnyy announced during a briefing in Kyiv on Thursday.

KYIV, Dec 12 – The Board of Directors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will consider the issue of the sixth review of the Extended Arrangement under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) and allocation of the seventh tranche to Ukraine worth about $1.1 billion on December 20, according to the schedule of meetings posted on the Fund's website.

KYIV, Dec 12 - Illegal trade in tobacco products in Ukraine as of October 2024 decreased to 12.6%, while in July it was recorded at 14.6%, and at the beginning of the year - 19.1%, according to a study by Kantar Ukraine on monitoring the illegal trade in tobacco products in Ukraine.

KYIV, Dec 12 - Elementum Energy, a subsidiary of VR Capital Group operating in the wind energy sector, acquired a 200 MW wind power project in western Ukraine and plans to prepare it for construction at the end of next year, said its managing director, member of the board of the Ukrainian Wind Energy Association (UWEA) Olha Rybachuk.

KYIV, Dec 13 – Since the beginning of 2024, up to 20 MW of new wind power capacity has been launched in Ukraine, and 24 MW of used wind turbines have been imported, said Andriy Konechenkov, Chairman of the Ukrainian Wind Energy Association (UWEA), at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine on Thursday.

KYIV, Dec 13 – The Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at an extraordinary meeting initiated by Ukraine on Thursday adopted a Ukrainian resolution on the inadmissibility of Russian attacks on infrastructure critical to the operation of NPPs.

KYIV, Dec 7 – In order to avoid blackouts and maintain balance in the energy system amid growing consumption, the dispatch center of NPC Ukrenergo is forced to attract emergency assistance from the operators of the electricity transmission system of Slovakia, Romania and Poland from 11:00 to 19:00 with a capacity of 700 MW.

KYIV, Dec 8 – The boycott of companies still operating on the Russian market continues: 63% of Ukrainians say that on principle they do not buy goods from sellers/manufacturers who have not left the market of the aggressor country, and another 22% do not know how to check this information, according to a study of Deloitte in Ukraine.

KYIV, Dec 8 – Dragon Capital investment company, taking into account the increase in exports of raw materials through the sea corridor, a stable energy situation and a good harvest, improved its forecast for economic growth in 2023 from 4.5% to 5.2%, but kept it at 4% for 2024, the company said in a press release on Friday.