NUREMBERG, Dec 28 - The purchasing power of Europeans in 2021 increased by 1.9% and reached EUR 15,055 per capita, according to GfK research company.

KYIV, Dec 24 – Kyiv Sikorsky International Airport (Zhuliany) expects a significant increase in the number of flights in 2022-2023, as a result of which it is planned to double passenger traffic, according to the airport's website with reference to Board Chairman Denys Kostrzhevsky.

KYIV, Dec 28 - Electricity production in Ukraine in January-November dropped by 4.5% compared to the same period in 2019, to 133.523 billion kWh, the Ministry of Energy has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, Dec 28 – Ukrainian consumers increased by 41% on the year to UAH 107 billion purchases via online platforms in 2020 due to lockdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic, according to EVO group research.

KYIV, Dec 28 – Ukraine’s economy will expand 5% on the year in 2021 after the government has obtained money from massive borrowing earlier this month, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said Saturday.

KYIV, Dec 24 – Ukraine International Airlines (UIA), the country’s largest airline, which suffered massive looses due to COVID-19 pandemic, plans to recapture most of its international routes by the summer 2021, the company reported.

KYIV, Dec 27 – The Cabinet of Ministers at the meeting on Wednesday approved the Regulation on the national system of biometric verification and identification of citizens of Ukraine, foreigners and stateless persons, the Liaison Department of the Interior Ministry said.

KYIV, Dec 27 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has provided a senior loan of EUR25 million to Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP), a Ukrainian producer of poultry meat, grain and fodder, according to a bank press release.

KYIV, Dec 27 – Metinvest B.V., the parent company of Metinvest mining and metallurgical group owned by the wealthiest Ukrainian Rinat Akhmetov, reported revenue up 11.5% on the month to $928 million in October.

KYIV, Dec 27 - The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the export strategy of Ukraine until 2021.

"It is important to make export promotion a constant, consistent and consolidated policy and in 2018 to launch the system of state support in the framework of this strategy," Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade, Ukraine's Trade Representative Natalia Mykolska said, representing the export strategy at a cabinet meeting on December 27.