KYIV, March 10 – The growth of consumer prices in Ukraine in February 2021 accelerated year-over-year to 7.5% from 6.1% in January and from 5% in December 2020, the State Statistics Service said on Wednesday.

KYIV, March 10 – The government’s controversial policy shifts favoring the coal sector created energy shortages and forced Ukraine to start power imports from Russia in February, Serhiy Verlanov, a former head of the State Tax Service, said Wednesday.

KYIV, March 9 – A subsidiary of the largest industrial conglomerate in Europe Siemens AG – Siemens Ukraine – for the first time in Ukraine will supply the blue GIS switchgear to DTEK Pavlohradvuhillia.

KYIV, March 10 – State-owned PrivatBank intends to involve an adviser in the preparation and sale of the financial institution's shares in Bukovel, the largest ski resort in Ukraine, Deputy Head of PrivatBank Halyna Pakhachuk said.

KYIV, March 10 – Fitch Ratings has affirmed Ukraine's Long-Term Foreign- and Local-Currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDR) at 'B', the outlook is positive, the rating agency said on its website.

KYIV, March 10 – The international rating agency Fitch Ratings expects acceleration of growth of the Ukrainian economy from 3.2% in 2019 to 3.5% in 2020 and 3.8% in 2021 due to private consumption and investment.

KYIV, March 7 – The information platform for natural gas daily balancing has recorded facts of reselling gas supplied for the needs of households to commercial enterprises by regional gas supply companies, Naftogaz Ukrayiny CEO Andriy Kobolev said.

KYIV, March 7 – Companies like Naftogaz Ukrayiny should be managed in line with modern corporate governance principles, U.S. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs David Hale said.

KYIV, March 7 – Chairman of the executive board of Naftogaz Ukrayiny Andriy Kobolev wants to complete arbitration proceedings with Russia's Gazprom still holding his post, he said at a press conference in Kyiv.

KYIV, March 6 – Turkish-made Bayraktar TB2 tactical unmanned aerial vehicle systems on supplies of which the Ukrainian and Turkish sides have previously agreed are already in Ukraine and their trials will begin soon, President Petro Poroshenko said.