KYIV, Nov 13 – U.S. private Oriole Capital Group will invest $150 million in the development of production of multi-purpose An-74 transport aircraft with a maximum carrying capacity of 10 tons of various modifications at Kharkiv State Aircraft Manufacturing Company, part of Ukroboronprom Concern, the press service of the state concern has said.

KYIV, Nov 14 - Romanian Tacrom has conducted 50 hydraulic fracturing operations on the wells of Ukrgazvydobuvannia, which will allow to additionally receive about 1.5 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas in five years.

KYIV, Nov 13 - McDonald's Corp. invested UAH 136 million to boost its fast food chain in Ukraine this year and plans to open two more restaurants by the end of the year.

KIEV, Nov. 15 - Ukrnaftoburinnia and Cypriot-based Glenshee Holdings Ltd. may buy Odessa port-side chemical plant, reads a report in the bulletin of the National Commission on Securities and the Stock Market.

KIEV, Nov. 15 - About 7,000 medical workers from Ukraine annually leave to work abroad, where salaries for doctors are higher, said Larysa Kanarovska, head of the councils of the Kiev City Trade Union of Healthcare Workers.

KIEV, Nov. 14 – Some 70-75% of Ukrainian goods were exported under indirect contracts in January through September 2016. These contracts help to remove profit from the country, head of the Office of Large Taxpayers of the State Fiscal Service Yevhen Bambizov said.

KIEV, Nov. 14 – Ukraine's real gross domestic product in the third quarter of 2016 increased by 1.8% compared with the third quarter of 2015, whereas in the second quarter of this year the figure was 1.4%, and in the first only 0.1%, the State Statistics Service said.

KIEV, Nov. 14 - The process of placing a new cover (New Safe Confinement, NSC) over Chernobyl nuclear power plant's fourth power unit began on Monday, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development reported.

KIEV, Nov. 15 – Ukraine's Antimonopoly Committee has approved amendments to the rules of the wholesale electricity market about the possibility of not launching thermal power plants (TPPs) if coal stocks at their warehouses are lower than the acceptable level.

KIEV, Nov. 13 - Naftogaz Ukraine bought 2.3 billion cubic meters of gas from Gazprom between October 12 and November 11.

According to Ukrtransgaz, Ukraine imported 1.99 billion cubic meters of Russian gas on October 12-31 and 0.33 billion cubic meters of Russian gas on November 1-11.