KYIV, Dec 3 – The Getmancar car sharing service has launched a pilot project for renting electric cars in Kyiv and Dnipro, electric crossovers Renault K-ZE operating in the capital, Nissan Leaf operating in Dnipro, the press service of the service reported.

KYIV, Dec 3 – Parliament, as part of the amendments to the state budget for 2021 adopted on Thursday, made, in particular, changes to the final and transitional provisions of law of Ukraine No. 1419-IX on overcoming the deficit of scrap metal in the domestic market, increasing the export duty from the existing EUR 58 to EUR 180 per ton of scrap.

KYIV, Dec 3 – The agricultural exporter Nibulon topped the list of the largest recipients of budget value added tax (VAT) refunds in November 2021 – UAH 1.22 billion, while in October the company had no budget refund of this tax, according to data of the State Treasury Service.

KYIV, Dec 2 - Ukrgazvydobuvannia has discovered the Mospanivske gas field in Kharkiv region with the predicted gas resources of up to 5 billion cubic meters (bcm), according to a press release from the company.

KYIV, Dec 4 – A program to support small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with affordable lending at 5-9% per annum will be launched from February 1, 2020, Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk said.

KYIV, Dec 4 – Opening the land market will bring Ukraine an extra 0.83% of GDP, or UAH 30 billion, in 2021, Ukraine's Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture Tymofiy Mylovanov has said.

KYIV, Dec 5 – The German low cost bus carrier FlixBus has started cooperation with the Ukrainian company Regabus, launching trips from Odesa via Prague to Plzen (the Czech Republic).

KYIV, Dec 5 – The State Service of Geology and Mineral Resources with the support from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) will hold a road show on three hydrocarbon sites put up for production sharing agreement (PSA) auctions in London on December 11, the service reported.

KYIV, Dec 5 – China's Bohai Commodity Exchange (BOCE), which in 2017 became the owner of the Ukrainian Bank for Reconstruction and Development (UBRD), has announced its intention to acquire a stake in PFTS Stock Exchange (Kyiv) in the amount of 49.90003% of the charter capital.

KYIV, Dec 5 – Ukraine’s current account deficit is likely to shrink to 3% of the gross domestic product in 2019, down from 3.3% in 2018, suggesting that economic growth is mostly exports-driven, Oleg Churiy, the deputy governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), said.