KYIV, April 10 – Construction of one more solar power plant with a capacity of 762 kW on the territory of the Chornobyl exclusion zone will be started in July 2019 and completed in December, the Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, April 13 – The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the introduction of new samples of excise duties for tobacco products made in Ukraine and imported products from July 1, 2018. This concerns cigars and cigarillos (apart from filtered and non-filtered cigarettes and mouthpiece cigarettes).

KYIV, April 12 – The European Commission jointly with European alcohol producers intend to publish the Counterfeit and Piracy watch-list for Ukraine with the purpose of combating counterfeit alcohol sale in the EU partner countries.

KYIV, April 12 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has revised upwards its forecast for Ukraine's forex reserves to $21.6 billion as of late 2018 from $20.5 billion, the central bank has reported on its website.

The forecast for 2019 was revised to $19.1 billion from $17.8 billion and for 2020 – to $20 billion from $18.6 billion.

KIEV, April 15 – Effective April 14, Ukraine halved the special tax on new imported passenger cars with 1-1.5-liter gasoline engines to 2.15%, and those with 1.5-2.2-liter gasoline engines to 4.32%.

KIEV, April 15 - Ukraine will consume 40 billion cubic meters of gas in 2015, a drop of 20% from two years ago, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said Wednesday.

KIEV, April 14 - EnergoAtom decreased electricity production by 0.02% in Q1 (by 4.8 million kilowatt-hours) year-over-year, to 23.792 billion kWh, the company reported.

The target was over-fulfilled by 1.7%.

KIEV, April 15 – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is asking donors to allocate additional money to resolve humanitarian issues in eastern Ukraine after a year of intense fighting.

KIEV, April 15 - Ukraine will pay for Russian natural gas supplies immediately after Gazprom revokes its recent 80% gas price hike, the national energy company Naftogaz Ukrayiny said Tuesday.

KIEV, April 15 - Ukraine on Tuesday resumed imports of natural gas from Europe via Poland, UkrTransGaz, the state-owned gas shipping company, reported.

Ukraine is importing gas from Europe in line with an agreement between national energy company Naftogaz Ukrayiny and RWE of Germany signed in May 2012.