KYIV, June 8 – President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on western investors for long-term cooperation with Ukraine.

In his speech at Dragon Capital's Ukraine Virtual Investor Conference, the head of state invited foreign investors to consider two horizons of cooperation with Ukraine – short-term and long-term.

KYIV, June 3 - The Glovo courier delivery service opens Eastern Europe's first Glovo technological hub in Kyiv.

General Manager for Eastern Europe and Central Asia Dmitry Rasnovsky said at a press conference in Kyiv that the company had already begun hiring. At the same time, options for placing the hub are being considered, taking into account the possibility in the future to scale it to a team of 100 IT specialists.

KYIV, June 3 – The Verkhovna Rada has passed at the final reading bill No. 4184 on the so-called "tax on Google," which proposes to equalize the tax rules for international technology companies with Ukrainian ones.

KYIV, June 3 – Centravis Production Ukraine, part of the holding Centravis Ltd., continues to develop the automotive segment, having won another contract in the automotive industry for the supply of seamless stainless steel pipes for premium exhaust systems to the EU.

KYIV, June 4 – The Ukrainian company Space Electric Thruster Systems (SETS, Dnipro, part of Max Polyakov's space vertical Noosphere), a manufacturer of low-power space plasma engines and electric power plants, has received a U.S. patent for the use of a stabilized discharge power source for powering Hall thrusters.

KYIV, June 4 – The price of capital housing has grown by an average of 5-10% since the beginning of the year, the head of the Kyiv city branch of the Association of Real Estate Specialists Ukraine, Olena Haidamakha, has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, June 7 – The European Business Association (EBA) has urged Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and Head of the Parliamentary Committee for Finances, Tax and Customs Policies Danylo Hetmantsev to review bill No. 5600, as the association believes it could create a disproportionate burden on the economy of Ukraine.

KYIV, June 7 – The Ukrainian version of the so-called "tax on Google" may entail significant inconveniences for consumers of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the Ukrainian League of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (ULIE) warned.

KYIV, June 4 – It is planned to open 16 business centers with a total area of 376,000 square meters in Kyiv in 2021-2022, Managing Partner of CBRE Ukraine Radomyr Tsurkan told Interfax-Ukraine during the forum devoted to current trends in real estate on Wednesday.

KYIV, June 4 – Oxford Economics has improved its forecast for Ukraine's real GDP growth in 2021 to 4.9%, up from 4% in the February forecast.

As evidenced by the May forecast, which is available to Interfax-Ukraine, the analysts have worsened their expectations for the growth of the Ukrainian economy in 2022 to 3.7% compared to the February forecast being 4.2%, and in 2023 they expect the decline in rates to continue – growth to 2.9%.