KYIV, Dec 10 – The share of Ukrainian companies planning to buy a business in the next six to 12 months has decreased over the year from 50% to 37%, according to a study of the M&A market in Ukraine by the Avellum law firm, which interviewed more than 90 owners, top managers and heads of legal departments of Ukrainian and international companies.

KYIV, Dec 13 – The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors approved today $150 million in Additional Financing for the Ukraine Emergency COVID-19 Response and Vaccination Project, the bank's press service has reported.

KYIV, Dec 13 – The Ukrainian-Turkish plant being built in Vasylkiv, Kyiv region, will manufacture ANKA-type jet-powered unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), the next generation of drones after Bayraktar, speaker of the Ukrainian delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group on Donbas settlement (TCG) Oleksiy Arestovych said in an interview with Radio Liberty on Saturday.

KYIV, Dec 11 – President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday pledged to work hard to protect rights of investors in Ukraine ad said this will be the government’s priority in 2021 in order to accelerate economic growth.

KYIV, Dec 10 – The European Business Association (EBA) has sent a letter to the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of Ukraine and MPs with an appeal to reduce the number of documents required for the production of groundwater for producers of drinking and mineral water.

KYIV, Dec 10 – Ukraine’s initial registrations of electric vehicles in January-November decreased by 2% compared to the same period in 2019, to 6,823 units, the Ukrautoprom association reported. Most of the registered EV are used cars.

KYIV, Dec 11 - Power consumption in Ukraine in November amounted to 10.187 million kWh, which is 45.9 million kWh, or 0.4% less than in the same month last year.

KYIV, Dec 11 - Oil transit through Ukraine by pipeline to European countries and Belarus in January-November 2020 increased by 1.1% (by 130,400 tons) compared to the same period in 2019, to 12.098 million tons, according to Ukrtransnafta.

KYIV, Dec 13 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in December reviewed upwards the forecast for export of corn from Ukraine in 2018/19 agricultural year (July-June) by 1 million tons compared with the September forecast, to 28 million tons.

KYIV, Dec 13 – Ukraine secured $500 million loan from China to build Dnistrovska hydroelectric pumped storage plant, Board Chairman of Ukrgasbank Kyrylo Shevchenko said in an interview with the Delovaya Stolitsa.