KYIV, Feb 7 – DTEK Kyiv Grids provides for the volume of investments in the development of power grids in Kyiv at the level of UAH 8.8 billion in the plan for the development of the Kyiv energy infrastructure in 2020-2024, which is almost five times more than investments made in this direction over the previous five years.

KYIV, Feb 7 – Ukraine will seek to minimize imports of power from Russia to a level that is required to secure safety of its power grid operation, Energy Minister Oleksiy Orzhel said Friday.

KYIV, Feb 7 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) lowered its forecast for monetary base growth in Ukraine in 2020 to 6.1% from 6.5% and raised its estimate of money supply growth to 10.1% from 8.9%, according to the NBU's inflationary report.

KYIV, Feb 6 – Ukraine plans to finance the road sector in 2018 using around UAH 50 billion, Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan has said.

KYIV, Feb 6 – Ukrzaliznytsia plans to finish construction of the new Beskydsky tunnel on May 25, and starts new large-scale infrastructure projects for over UAH 10 billion, Ukrzaliznytsia acting Board Chairman Yevhen Kravtsov said.

KYIV, Feb 6 – National power grid company Ukrenergo plans in March 2018 to present calculations for feasibility of launching new solar power plants and wind farms in the regions without a risk of unbalancing the united power grid of Ukraine, Ukrenergo Head Vsevolod Kovalchuk said.

KYIV, Feb 6 – Ukraine's forex reserves reached $18.444 billion as of early February 2018, which is 2% less than a month earlier, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) posted the preliminary data on its official website on Tuesday.

KIEV, Feb. 9 – Industrialbank (Zaporizhia) and Express-Bank (Kiev) want to merge, Industrialbank Chairman Mykhailo Bukreyev said.

"Industrialbank and Express-Bank will merge. This is an absolutely rational step for us.

KIEV, Feb. 9 - Ukrgazvydobuvannia has dismissed a bid of Drilling Energy Technics Limited that offered the third-largest price for all 15 lots of a tender to attract external contractors to drilling works in Kharkiv and Poltava regions to produce gas and oil in 2017-2019.

KIEV, Feb. 8 – The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) on Wednesday morning raided the head office of public joint-stock company Ukrgazvydobuvannia, the subsidiary of national joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrayiny, Ukrgazvydobuvannia Chairman Oleh Prokhorenko said.