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.

KYIV, Dec 27 - The enterprises of the space industry of Ukraine in 2017 within the framework of participation in international cooperation in the world market of launch services provided five launches of carrier rockets.

The State Space Agency of Ukraine said in 2017 three launches of the Vega carrier rocket of the European Space Agency (ESA), one launch of the Antares carrier rocket operated in the United States under the contract with NASA, as well as one launch of the Zenit-3SLBF carrier rocket within the framework of the Land Launch international project were provided with the participation of Ukrainian space enterprises.

KYIV, Dec 27 - The Cabinet of Ministers on Wednesday approved the financial plan of state-owned enterprise Energoatom for 2018 with a planned net profit of UAH 327.627 million, which is 38.5% higher than the expected similar figure this year (UAH 236.472 million).