KYIV, Dec 8 – Investment group ICU has downgraded its estimates of Ukrainian economic growth for 2024 to 5%, while in July of this year it predicted it at 6.4%.

KYIV, Dec 8 - The energy system will face one or two more potentially stressful weeks, and closer to the New Year, consumption will decline and it will be easier to cope with the provision of energy supplies, predicts Volodymyr Kudrytsky, chairman of the board of Ukrenergo.

KYIV, Dec 11 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has raised the forecast for wheat exports from Ukraine in the 2023/24 marketing year (MY) by 500,000 tons, to 12.5 million tons, and corn by 1.0 million tons, to 21.0 million tons.

KYIV, Dec 11 – Ukrhydroenergo received a tranche of EUR133 million from the European Investment Bank (EIB) for the complex project Hydro Power Plants Rehabilitation.

KYIV, Dec 11 – Since the last review in June, the international rating agency Fitch Ratings has raised its GDP growth forecast for Ukraine in 2023 from 3.5% to 5.1% on further business adaptation to war conditions, improved consumer confidence, and agriculture growth.

KYIV, Dec 15 – The ICU Group has downgraded its forecast for Ukraine's GDP growth in 2021 to 2.9% from 5.2% in the spring forecast, Head of ICU Macroeconomic Research Vitaliy Vavryschuk has said.

KYIV, Dec 14 – The cost of housing in the primary market may increase by 10-15% in 2022 under favorable economic conditions and a significant increase in demand, Mykhailo Pidvysotsky, founder and managing partner of Concept Group, has said.

KYIV, Dec 14 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny in 2021 allocated UAH 42 billion for the purchase of imported gas, and UAH 44 billion for Ukrainian gas, head of the company's board Yuriy Vitrenko said.

KYIV, Dec 14 – The Ministry of Infrastructure is studying the possibility of purchasing the first five An-158 aircraft from the state-owned enterprise Antonov (Kyiv), which is part of Ukroboronprom, for the needs of the Ukrainian National Airlines (UNA), the Ministry of Infrastructure has reported on Facebook.

KYIV, Dec 14 - The Verkhovna Rada will change the formula for calculating royalties for the extraction of manganese ore by analogy with iron ore, as established by the "resource" law (bill No. 5600), the head of the parliamentary committee on finance, taxation and customs policy, Danylo Hetmantsev, said.