KYIV, Dec 5 – Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal has said that in January-November 2023, Ukraine received $37.4 billion in external financing.

KYIV, Dec 5 – The German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWK), the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Ministry of Restoration of Ukraine have agreed to sign a grant worth EUR 20 million for the Renewable Energy Solution Program (RES).

KYIV, Dec 6 – The second Panamax-class vessel with 66,000 tons of U.S. coal for the DTEK Energy TPPs has arrived in Ukraine, the vessel was moored at berth No. 20 of the TIS port (TransInvestService, which operates in the water area of the Pivdenny seaport), DTEK said on Sunday.

KYIV, Dec 6 – Metinvest, Ukraine’s largest steel producer, increased exports by 83% year-over-year, to $10.1 billion, in January-September, which is 74% of the total consolidated revenue, the company reported.

KYIV, Dec 3 - The Ukrainian industrial company Interpipe considers solving climate problems as the key area of partnership between business and the state for the next 5-10 years, Serhiy Kuzmenko, the director for economics and finance of Interpipe, said at a panel discussion on the role of partnership in economic growth during the Partnership for Sustainability Award 2021 ceremony organized by the UN Global Compact in Ukraine project.

KYIV, Dec 3 – Vodafone Ukraine, FUIB and the DTEK group of companies (all are based in Kyiv) topped the Transparency Index 2020 according to the results of the ESG Transparency Index 2020 Ukraine study from the Corporate Governance Professional Association (CGPA), CSR Ukraine Center with the support of the Center for International Private Entrepreneurship (CIPE).

KYIV, Dec 6 – Ukrainian hotels in the Carpathians are expected to be fully booked for the New Year period; as of the middle of November, up to 50% of rooms have been booked, hotel operators reported.

KYIV, Dec 4 – The losses of Ukrainian shopping and shopping and entertainment malls due to the government's imposition of weekend quarantine during Black Friday ranged from 30% to 40% of turnover, the Ukrainian Council of Shopping Centers and the Epicenter K trading network reported.

KYIV, Dec 4 – A senior Ukrainian lawmaker urged the government to be cautious about signing a free trade agreement with Turkey because the scale of the impact may be too big on the Ukrainian companies.

KYIV, Dec 3 – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has supported the proposal of Yuriy Husev, appointed by him as director general of the state concern Ukroboronprom on Thursday, to hold a separate meeting of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC), dedicated to the transformation of Ukroboronprom and the defense-industrial complex in general.