KYIV, May 8 – A reduction in wheat production in Ukraine and the world, as well as a decrease in grain reserves will be significant factors in the record rise in food grain prices in the new season, the weather may become a decisive factor supporting the growth trend, reported the analytical cooperative Pusk, created within the Ukrainian Agrarian Council (UAC).

KYIV, May 8 – Banking institutions are ready to finance projects for the construction of new energy facilities and have a sufficient level of liquidity to do this, but some of them note low demand for loans in this area.

KYIV, May 7 – The capabilities of the enterprises of JSC Ukrainian Defense Industry (Ukroboronprom) are approximately three times greater than the currently available level of funding, so "we need as many long-term contracts as possible," Ukroboronprom General Director Herman Smetanin has said.

KYIV, May 5 – The new crop of wheat, which is in demand, is almost not contracted on forward contracts due to the restriction of the movement of ships along the grain corridor and problems at the western borders, while the stocks of the old crop "put pressure" on prices, analysts of the Ukrainian Agrarian Council said.

KYIV, May 4 – Ukraine will have to import about 1 GW of power during the summer consumption peak, as well as put into operation additional units of gas-fired thermal power plants (TPPs) in order to cover the power shortage arising from NPPs going into repair, says Oleksandr Kharchenko, director of the Energy Industry Research Center.

KYIV, May 5 – Solvent banks of Ukraine in January-March 2023 received UAH 34 billion of net profit against UAH 152 million loss for the same period in 2022, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) said on Friday.

KYIV, May 8 – President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met with the management of the world's largest asset management company BlackRock to discuss creation of a major investment fund to rebuild Ukraine.

KYIV, May 5 – GTSOU LLC has received applications from more than ten companies that are considering the possibility of building 31 biomethane plants in Ukraine with a productivity of 225 million cubic meters per year, said the company's general director Dmytro Lyppa at parliamentary hearings on the development of alternative energy sources.

KYIV, April 5 – Ukrzaliznytsia expects freight traffic to grow by 2.2% to 151.6 million tons in 2024, according to a presentation presented during a conversation with journalists by Ukrzaliznytsia Board Chairman Yevhen Liaschenko on Thursday.

KYIV, April 5 – The number of vacancies on the labor market continues to grow for the third month in a row: in March it increased by 6%, to 102,800, although the number of applicants has decreased, these are the main results of regular labor market research from Work.ua.