KIEV, Jan. 8 - Ukraine’s imports of coke, a raw material used for steelmaking, increased 37.6% on the month in November following a shutdown of the country’s biggest coking coal producer due to a series of recent explosions.

KYIV, Dec 6 – Almost two-thirds of development companies in Ukraine are on the verge of bankruptcy, Volodymyr Sementsov, the co-founder and managing partner of INSPI Development, told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, Dec 7 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) reaffirms its commitment to invest EUR 3 billion in Ukraine during 2022-2023, which is 50% more than before the war, EBRD President Odile Renaud-Basso said in an exclusive interview with Interfax -Ukraine.

KYIV, Dec 7 – Oleksiy Chernyshov, the head of Naftogaz Ukrayiny, estimates losses in natural gas production due to Russian shelling of the group's gas production facilities in November at $700 million.

KYIV, Dec 6 – The overwhelming majority of Ukrainians (85%) singles out human activity as the main cause of climate change in the world, according to a poll presented by the Ukrainian Climate Network on Monday.

KYIV, Dec 7 - The European Investment Bank (EIB) in November approved the allocation of a loan to Kyiv in the amount of EUR100 million for the purchase of urban electric transport, including trolleybuses and subway cars, the bank's website says.

KYIV, Dec 6 – President of Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) Yevhen Dykhne does not share "general pessimism" regarding the creation of a national airline in Ukraine, but believes that the state will face the same problems as private companies.

KYIV, Dec 6 – A 5% increase in the excise tax on alcoholic beverages from January 1, 2022, provided for by recent legislation adopted by Parliament, will not affect the price of alcohol in retail chains, since large retailers will most likely refuse to transfer raising prices from suppliers of alcoholic beverages to end consumers.

KYIV, Dec 4 - The volume of quotas to support the production of electricity from renewable energy sources other than solar and wind (biomass, biogas, some types of small hydroelectric power plants) for 2021-2022 needs to be raised to 100 MW annually, according to the Bioenergy Association of Ukraine (BAU).

KYIV, Dec 4 – Lvivvodokanal, a local water supply company, signed an agreement with the Slovenian-Norwegian consortium Riko-Cambi on the construction of a biogas station with combined heat and power production for EUR 31.5 million.