KYIV, March 5 – The Foreign Ministry, in partnership with the IT Ukraine Association, has launched the "IT Export Boost" project to promote the IT services of Ukrainian companies in foreign markets, the ministry reported.

KYIV, March 4 – As of March 1, 18.03 billion cubic meters of gas were stored in the underground gas storages (UGS) in Ukraine, which is a record level of filling over the past 10 years, exceeding last year's figure by 13%.

KYIV, March 4 – The Cabinet of Ministers is counting on attracting billions of hryvnias through a tax amnesty, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said.

"We expect that these will be large volumes ... Different countries received from such shares from $500,000 to billions and tens of billions of dollars, which returned to the 'white turnover.' I would like it to be in billions in hryvnias at least," said the prime minister during a press conference in Kyiv on Thursday.

KYIV, March 6 – The Cabinet of Ministers will announce a tender to select CEO of national joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrayiny, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said at a government meeting on Wednesday.

KYIV, March 5 – Ukraine's international reserves in February 2019 decreased 2.9% and as of March 1, 2019 reached $20.22 billion (in equivalent), according to preliminary data posted on the website of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU).

KYIV, March 6 – The owner of SCM, Rinat Akhmetov, is the wealthiest Ukrainian with assets growing to $6 billion in 2019 from $5.5 billion in 2018, according to a ranking released by Forbes magazine. Akhmetov is No 272 in the global ranking.

LVIV, March 5 – Mobile communications operators Kyivstar, Vodafone Ukraine and lifecell jointly with the Lviv City Administration and municipal enterprise Lvivelectrotrans have launched the SMS-payment service for public transport in Lviv for prepaid subscribers, Deputy Lviv Mayor Andriy Moskalenko said at a press conference in Lviv on Tuesday.

KYIV, March 5 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny plans to file a complaint to the European Commission against Russia's Gazprom for conducting the anticompetitive policy, Naftogaz COO Yuriy Vitrenko said.

BRUSSELS, March 5 – The option of terminating transit of natural gas across Ukraine in 2020 by Russia's Gazprom after the completion of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is a base scenario, Naftogaz Ukrayiny COO Yuriy Vitrenko said.

KYIV, March 5 – Enterprises of the State Forest Resources Agency processed over 2 million cubic meters of wood in 2018, which is 10% more than in 2017, Director General of Forestry Innovation and Analytical Center of the agency Viktor Melnychenko has said.