KYIV, Jan 4 – Ukraine under the Ukraine Urban Public Transport Project of the European Investment Bank (EIB) plans to buy 227 buses, 153 trolleybuses, 56 trams and 35 subway wagons in 2019, according to a posting on the website of the Infrastructure Ministry.

KYIV, Jan 4 - Ukrainian metal and mining enterprises in 2018 tentatively increased rolled steel output by 1% year-over-year, to 18.446 million tons.

KYIV, Jan 4 – Minister of Infrastructure Volodymyr Omelyan says the railway service between Ukraine and the Russian Federation will halt.

KYIV, Jan 4 - Epicenter K, which has been actively developing agricultural business in the last two years, in 2019 will build five new elevators with a total value of about EUR50 million.

KIEV, Dec. 31 – The total amount of loans issued by Ukrainian banks to companies and individuals from the beginning of 2013 to December 30, 2013, grew by 12.3%, or almost UAH 95 billion, the National Bank of Ukraine reported on Tuesday.

KIEV, Dec. 31 – The National Commission For Energy Regulation (NCER) from January 1, 2014 cut the ceiling for the price of natural gas for industrial consumers by 10%, to UAH 3,113 per 1,000 cubic meters and by 29.2% for companies financed from the national and local budgets, to UAH 2,448 per 1,000 cubic meters (value added tax (VAT), surcharges, tariffs for transportation, distribution and supply are not included).

KIEV, Jan. 2 – The amount of food wasted on every New Year's table in Ukraine is equivalent on average to UAH 199, or 18% of the living wage for 2013, the AgriSurvey agency reported.

KIEV, Jan. 8 - Ukraine in 2013 imported 2 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas from Europe through Poland and Hungary, which is about 1.5 times higher than the target foreseen in the balance of gas supply and distribution (1.3 billion cubic meters), according to operational monitoring data from the gas transportation system (GTS) operators of Hungary and Poland, namely FGSZ Ltd, Gaz-System S.A.

KIEV, Jan. 8 - Ukraine increased corn exports in 2013 by a third, to 9.5 million tons, the Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry reported.

KIEV, Jan. 2 – The law on the functioning of Ukraine's electricity market, which foresees the liberalization of the country's wholesale electricity market, took effect on January 1.

The law was passed in parliament on October 24, 2013; it was published the government's Uriadovy Kurier newspaper on December 18, 2013.