KYIV, Feb 11 – Ukrainians increased debts for housing and utilities services in December 2018 by 14.4% from November 2018 to UAH 50.7 billion.

The State Statistics Service said the data are given without taking into account the occupied territory of Crimea and Sevastopol, as well as part of the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

KYIV, Feb 11 – The national power grid Ukrenergo hired Lalive S.A. (Switzerland) to represent the interests of the company in a case on compensation of losses due to annexation of Crimea by Russia.

KYIV, Feb 11 - The state Kharkiv Armored Plant upgraded more than a hundred of T-64 tank, which is enough to re-equip an entire tank brigade, President Petro Poroshenko said.

KYIV, Feb 9 – The state gas shipper Ukrtransgaz seeks to finish reconstruction of the Bar compressor station in Vinnytsia region of the Soyuz gas pipeline being implemented jointly with German companies, Ukrtransgaz Chief Engineer Yuriy Ziabchenko said.

KYIV, Feb 9 – The government will create a group to coordinate return of the phone company Ukrtelecom back to state ownership, the National Commission for Securities and the Stock Market reported.

KYIV, Feb 8 - ICU Investment Group, which is co-owned and managed by a close ally of President Petro Poroshenko, boosted assets to more than $500 million, ICU Managing Partner Makar Paseniuk said.

KYIV, Feb 8 - Kyivstar, the largest mobile operator in Ukraine, plans to install 600 new base stations in 2018, company president Peter Chernyshov told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, Feb 9 – The Antimonopoly Committee will decide soon whether to allow the Interpipe pipe and wheel company to create a joint venture with the leading manufacturer of seamless pipe in Europe Vallourec of France, the committee reported.

KYIV, Feb 9 – The cyber police in Kyiv exposed an employee of a financial company who attempted to sell data on the company's clients, the press service of the Cyber Police Department of the National Police in Kyiv reported.

KIEV, Feb. 9 - Ukraine inefficiently uses state-owned property and doesn't even keep track of full information about it, though this significant asset could become of great help to the government, according to experts from the International Monetary Fund.