KYIV, Nov 6 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny is ready to start drilling on the Yuzivska plot six months after the signing of an agreement with the Cabinet of Ministers for its development, said head of the group Andriy Kobolev.

KYIV, Nov 6 – President Volodymyr Zelensky said that he cannot completely disregard the fate of Motor Sich, since this enterprise is strategic for the country.

KYIV, Nov 6 – The draft national budget for 2020, prepared by the government for second reading, foresees a weighted average rate for external borrowings at about 8%, internal at about 14.6%, according to an explanatory note to the updated draft document.

KYIV, Nov 6 – The international reserves of Ukraine in October 2019, according to preliminary data, decreased by 0.2%, to $21.403 billion, according to the website of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU).

KYIV, Nov 6 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has reviewed upwards the expectations for the economic growth in Ukraine in 2019 from 2.5% to 3.3% and from 3% to 3.5% in 2020, according to the EBRD Regional Economic Prospects report.

KYIV, Nov 7 – The postponement until March 1, 2020 of the embargo on the import of used freight cars from Russia to Ukraine that Ukraine's government adopted in May, 2019 has led to a sharp increase in the import of them from Russia and a reduction in orders for Ukrainian car builders, National Committee for Industrial Development Secretary Olena Salikhova has said.

KYIV, Nov 7 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has published a list of 11 companies that have received the right to participate in tenders for the purchase of natural gas of Naftogaz Ukrainy for the funds raised from the bank as part of eurobond placement in 2019.

KHARKIV, Nov 7 – Director General of the Ukroboronprom state concern Aivaras Abromavicius has said that the absence of good labor conditions is one of the most painful problems of the defense enterprises, which are incorporated in the concern.

KYIV, Nov 7 – The EUR325 million eurobond issue of DTEK Renewables became the debut corporate "green" issue of a Ukrainian issuer and, accordingly, the first benchmark for investors in this sector, Dmytro Hladkov, the acting head of the investment banking department of the co-organizer of the issue, Renaissance Capital investment company, has said.

KYIV, Nov 7 – The number of taxpayers who declared about the refunding of value added tax (VAT) in 2018 grew by 1,000, to 5,000 applications, acting Head of the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine Oleksandr Vlasov said.