KYIV, March 5 – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced sanctions against oligarch and former Ukrainian official Ihor Kolomoisky due to his involvement in major corruption.

KYIV, March 5 – Potato producer Central Plains Group Ukraine (CPG) intends to build a waste-free potato processing plant in Hlyniany (Lviv region) with a capacity of 40,000-50,000 tons per year.

KYIV, March 5 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) explained the reduction of Ukraine's foreign exchange (FX) reserves in February by 1%, to $28.54 billion by the repayment of external and internal public debt, the central bank said on Friday.

KYIV, March 9 – Chinese buyers of shares in Motor Sich violated their obligation to invest $250 million in 2018 and obtain permission from the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU), President of Motor Sich Viacheslav Bohuslayev said.

KYIV, March 9 – Ukraine projects that inflow of foreign direct investment (FDI) will increase by 2025 to $15 billion per year, while at the end of 2020 their outflow amounted to $420 million, and in 2021 the National Bank predicts a recovery in FDI inflows at the level of $3 billion.

KYIV, March 9 – Ukraine in 2020 climbed from 80th to 63rd place in the Social Progress Index among 163 countries with score of 73.38 points versus 66.97 in 2019, according to the index data.

KYIV, March 5 – The share of non-performing loans (NPL) in the loan portfolios of Sberbank and Prominvestbank (PIB), the subsidiaries of Russian state banks in Ukraine, as of February 1, 2020 was 80.7% and 97%, respectively, which is the worst rate among the top 25 Ukrainian banks, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has said.

KYIV, March 6 – Ukrnaftoburinnia, owned by Ihor Kolomoisky and Vitaliy Khomutynnik, has offered the best price in the final stage of Odesa Port-Side Chemical Plant competition to select a partner for toll processing of gas to mineral fertilizers within May-December 2020, First Deputy Director of Odesa Port-Side Chemical Plant Mykola Schurikov said.

KYIV, March 6 – Ukraine's economy contracted 0.5% on the year in January, the Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture has said based on report from the State Statistics Service.

KIEV, March 9 - The largest VAT refunds recipient in January and February 2017 were Kernel-Trade sunflower oil exporter with UAH 2.194 billion (UAH 764 million), the State Treasury Service has reported.