KYIV, May 13 - The European Business Association (EBA) called on the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine and the Foreign Minister to initiate a country's appeal to the UN regarding the possibility of creating a special forbidden zone in order to counter the blocking of Ukrainian trade by Russia.

KYIV, May 12 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) at its annual meeting and business forum in Marrakesh (Morocco) has received commitments heading towards EUR 1 billion in donor funds to support its response to the war on Ukraine, the bank said.

KYIV, May 14 – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) predicts that grain harvest in Ukraine in 2019 will be 65.3 million tons, which is 5.6% lower than in 2018.

KYIV, May 14 – The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMC) has fined the networks of OKKO, WOG and SOCAR some UAH 77 million for anticompetitive concerted actions in the market of light petroleum products, in particular, for similar actions during 2017, head of the committee Yuriy Terentyev said on his Facebook page.

KYIV, May 15 – The operator of the oil transport system of Ukraine, JSC Ukrtransnafta, and Russia's Transneft are negotiating the agreement on compensation of expenses for displacing non-merchantable oil from the Druzhba oil pipeline, the press service of Ukrtransnafta wrote on the company's Facebook page.

KYIV, May 14 – The state phone company Ukrtelecom designed a project to connect remote settlements to the broadband Internet access service, which could cover 8,000 villages where 6 million residents are living, during two years, Director for Mass Market Segment at Ukrtelecom Denys Zakharenko said at the presentation of the project in Kyiv on Monday.

KYIV, May 14 – The Ukrainian Association of Scrap Metals and Resources, UAVtormetresurs, harshly criticized plans to prolong export duties on scrap metal and increase them from EUR 30 per metric ton to EUR 42 per mt.

KYIV, May 14 - The hryvnia exchange rate could remain in the range of UAH 25.7-26.3 per $1 by the beginning of autumn, according to bankers interviewed by Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, May 14 - The Carpathian strategy could become one of the instruments for expanding interregional cooperation between Ukraine and Poland, and also with the EU as a whole, First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economic Development and Trade Stepan Kubiv said at a meeting with Polish Minister of Investment and Economic Development Jerzy Kwiecinski.

KYIV, May 15 – The Hype.ua Center for Transport Innovations has chosen a place for building a test site for Hyperloop in Dnipro and plans to focus on the development of technical documentation, Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Volodymyr Omelyan wrote on his Facebook page.