KYIV, Nov 6 – Ukraine and Israel will sign a free trade area (FTA) agreement at the end of November, Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said after a meeting with new ambassador of Israel to Ukraine Joel Lion in Kyiv on Tuesday.

KYIV, Nov 6 – Sales of new passenger cars in Ukraine in 2019 could grow to 100,000 units, or by 18-25% compared with 80,000-85,000 units expected in 2018, Managing Director of Porsche Ukraine LLC Josef Graf has said.

KYIV, Nov 7 – Ukrzaliznytsia on November 8, 2018 will launch the first TE33AC Trident (Tryzub) supplied by General Electric (GE) in a cargo train on the 150 km Kremenchuk-Romodan section in a test mode, acting Board Chairman of Ukrzaliznytsia Yevhen Kravtsov has said.

KYIV, Nov 7 - The number of foreign tourists entering Ukraine in January-June 2018 decreased by 1.7% compared to the same period in 2017, to 6.22 million people, Ukraine's Ministry of Economic Development and Trade reported on its website based on State Border Service data.

KYIV, Nov 7 - Naftogaz LLC intends to increase natural gas production in 2019 by 10-12% (by 170-200 million cubic meters) compared to the expected production in 2018, to 1.8 billion cubic meters, manager on regulatory issues in the company Yulia Borzhemska has said during the XVI International Forum "Fuel and Energy Complex of Ukraine: Present and Future" in Kyiv.

KYIV, Nov 7 - Chairman of the supervisory board of Louis Dreyfus Holding B.V. Margarita Louis-Dreyfus, who arrived in Kyiv at the head of the delegation of Louis Dreyfus Company, one of the largest foodstuff traders in the world, during a meeting with President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko announced the plan to increase investment in the Ukrainian economy.

KYIV, Nov 7 - The Cabinet of Ministers will send about UAH 500 million to pay off wage arrears to workers in state-owned mines, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said.

KYIV, Nov 8 – A total of 2.56 million people used services of Ukrainian tour operators in 2017, and total revenue of tour companies accounted for UAH 13.14 billion, according to a posting on the website of the Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities Economy Ministry of Ukraine.

MOSCOW, Nov 8 - VTB is not ruling out a further deterioration in the liquidity situation at its Ukrainian Subsidiary bank VTB Bank (Ukraine) if existing court ordered restrictions persist, Dmitry Pyanov VTB Senior Vice President and head of the finance department told journalists on Thursday.

KYIV, Nov 7 – Ukraine's forex reserves expanded by $98 million or 4% in October 2017, and as of November 1, 2017 reached $18.73 billion, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) posted the preliminary data on Tuesday on its website.