KYIV, May 28 – The World Bank will provide $200 million to Ukraine to implement the Accelerating Private Investment in Agriculture Program Project for Ukraine to alleviate select constraints to increased participation of the private sector, in particular small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), in agricultural input and output markets of Ukraine.

KYIV, May 28 – Ukraine in January-April 2019 decreased electricity exports by 2.7% (by 59.3 million kWh) compared to the same period in 2018, to 2.13 billion kWh, the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry reported.

KYIV, May 27 – Ukraine will boost natural gas output from abandoned gas wells by 2 billion cubic meters (bcm) due to technology to be provided by Halliburton of the U.S.

KYIV, May 28 – Primary placements of government domestic loan bonds of Ukraine would move to international trading platforms Bloomberg and Refinitiv by the end of this quarter, according to a presentation of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) posted on its website in relation with the launch of the link with Clearstream securities depository.

KYIV, May 28 – Successful tests of the Neptune new coastal anti-ship missile 300 km-range complex designed by Luch Design Bureau, a member of the Ukroboronprom state concern, were held in Odesa region.

KYIV, May 28 – Director General of the Dnipro-based Yangel Yuzhnoye (Pivdenne) Design Bureau Oleksandr Degtyarev says that he is convinced of good market prospects of the Ukrainian Zenit launch vehicle (LV) involved in several international projects.

KIEV, May 25 – The all-purpose maritime battalion of Indonesian marines have officially begun to use a test batch of BTR-4M armored personnel carriers produced at Ukraine's Kharkiv-based Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau. The contract was signed in February 2014 between the state-run SpetsTechnoExport Concern, which is part of Ukrainian state-run Ukroboronprom, and Indonesia's Defense Ministry.

KHARKIV, May 25 – The state-owned Malyshev Machine-Building Plant (Kharkiv) is preparing to ship one more batch of its main battle tank Oplot to Thailand, Chief Engineer of the plant Oleksandr Sheiko said.

KIEV, May 26 – Heads of industrial enterprises and companies have assessed the actions and work of the State Fiscal Service as unacceptable and threatening to the relative stabilization of tax payments and value added tax refunds for exported products.

KIEV, May 27 – The Avdiyivka Coke-Chemical Plant, part of Metinvest Group, which suspended operation after it was shelled by militants on May 23, has been connected to electricity supply and has resumed operation.