KYIV, April 9 – The growth of consumer prices in Ukraine in March 2024 accelerated to 0.5% from 0.3% in February and 0.4% in January, the State Statistics Service reported on Tuesday.

KYIV, April 10 – Ukrainian wheat, which is in great demand on the world market, began to rise in price due to a decrease in the supply of products from key players who reduced their activity in anticipation of the new season's harvest, reported the Pusk analytical cooperative, created in within the framework of the Ukrainian Agrarian Council (UAC).

KYIV, April 11 – PJSC ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih (AMKR, Dnipropetrovsk region) completed an extensive second-category repair of blast furnace No. 6, which lasted 296 days and took place in difficult military conditions.

KYIV, April 11 – Ukraine will face a power shortage of 3 GW in May, said Olha Buslavets, former Minister of Energy and Advisor to the General Director for Energy Issues at PJSC ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, on Thursday.

KYIV, April 12 - The cost of transporting grain cargo by Ukrzaliznytsia is decreasing amid falling rates for the use of the company's grain carriers, as well as due to an increase in the speed of their movement in domestic traffic and in the direction of seaports, said the deputy director of the department of commercial work Valeriy Tkachev.

KYIV, April 12 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in the updated global forecast balance of major crops for March increased the forecast for corn exports from Ukraine in the 2022/2023 marketing year (MY, July-June) by 2 million tons compared to the data for February - to 25.5 million tons from 23.5 million tons, and wheat - by 1 million tons, up to 14.5 million tons from 13.5 million tons.

KYIV, April 12 – Regional Gas Company (RGC) has connected Ukraine's first biomethane plant with a capacity of 3 million cubic meters of gas per year to its networks.

KYIV, April 12 – The National Nuclear Generating Company Energoatom and the Canadian company Cameco have signed an agreement, which was the last necessary stage for implementing the program for the use of Ukrainian uranium in the production of nuclear fuel for Ukrainian nuclear power plants.

KYIV, April 11 – Energoatom, after resuming its control over the Central Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility (CSFSF) after leaving the exclusion zone of the Russian invaders, will first of all continue to work on obtaining permission for its operation from the State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine, which was scheduled for March 9 before the war, Head of the company Petro Kotin has said.

KYIV, April 9 – Ukrainian furniture manufacturers in January-March increased their furniture exports by 50% compared to the same period in 2019, to $247.4 million, while in the past five years (2015-2020) there was an annual increase of 13.5%, a member of the Ukrainian Association of Furniture Manufacturers (UAFM) Oksana Donska said.