KYIV, Dec 27 – ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih (AMKR, Dnipropetrovsk region) considers it possible to increase product sales on the domestic market thanks to government orders, employee reservations and normalization of logistics routes, plans to increase investments in 2024 by 20%.

KYIV, Dec 27 – Exports of Ukrainian agricultural products in 2023 increased by 7% compared to 2022 and in monetary terms amounted to $22.9 billion, grain supplies amounted to 43 million tons versus 37 million tons a year earlier.

KYIV, Dec 27 – In Ukraine, the production of mortar rounds has increased significantly, by 42 times, and in artillery shells – an increase of almost three times, Minister for Strategic Industries Oleksandr Kamyshin said.

KYIV, Dec 27 – Ukraine attracted $42 billion in external financing in 2023 just to cover budgetary needs and a record amount of borrowing on the domestic market, Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko has said.

KYIV, Dec 27 – Rinat Akhmetov with fortune of $4.4 billion topped the rating of the richest businessmen in Ukraine, according to the Forbes Ukraine website.

KYIV, Dec 23 - Ukraine’s largest private energy company DTEK will go ahead and increase imports of coal from the U.S. as the level of the country’s coal reserves remain critical, the company reported Thursday.

KYIV, Dec 23 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny, despite its intentions to increase its own production, will be forced to import gas in the summer of 2022, for which it plans to issue Eurobonds probably in May, Board Chairman of the company Yuriy Vitrenko has said.

KYIV, Dec 22 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny filed a complaint with the European Commission over Russia's Gazprom's abuse of its dominant position in the European gas market by submitting a petition to the Directorate General for Competition to take immediate measures to normalize the situation.

KYIV, Dec 22 - Alfa Bank (Kyiv) expects real GDP growth in Ukraine in 2022 by 3.4% after its projected growth of 3% over 2021 and a slowdown in the average annual inflation in 2022 to 8.6%, which is 0. 8 percentage points below the expected average annual inflation rate in 2021 (9.4%).

KYIV, Dec 23 – The IT company GlobalLogic plans to expand its staff in Ukraine in the near future, recruiting an additional 3,000-5,000 IT specialists.

"To work with Hitachi, we need to grow our staff. In Ukraine, we want to recruit 3,000-5,000 people. These will be both attracted specialists and students, whom we additionally train. And this is quite realistic. We are now cooperating with 24 educational institutions in Ukraine," Vice President for Strategy and Technology at GlobalLogic Ukraine Andriy Yavorsky said at a meeting with journalists in Kyiv on Wednesday.