KYIV, Feb 4 – Exports of agri-food products from Ukraine amounted to $22.2 billion last year, which is 19% more than in 2018, the Ukrainian Agribusiness Club (UCAB) has reported on its website.

KYIV, Feb 4 – Six applications to participate in tenders to develop Hrunivske, Okhtyrske and Ichnianske fields under production sharing agreements (PSA) have been submitted to the interagency commission for organization of the signing and implementation of PSA.

KYIV, Feb 4 – The list of enterprises, 100% stakes in which are to be left in ownership of the state, according to bill No. 2831, includes nclear power generator Energoatom, hydro-power producer Ukrhydroenergo, power grid Ukrenergo and gas pipeline operator Mahistralni Gazoprovody Ukrayiny (MGU).

KYIV, Feb 4 – Growth of Ukraine's GDP in 2019 slowed from 3.4% in 2018 to 3.3%, while the drivers of this growth have changed, the Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine said on Tuesday.

KYIV, Feb 4 – Italy's Ernest Airlines plans to open new destinations from Kyiv to Tirana, Rome and Genoa in 2019.

"The Ernest network is rapidly developing in directions between Italy, Albania and Ukraine. New flights from Kyiv Airport (Zhuliany) will be carried out to Tirana, Rome and Genoa," the airport's press service has said.

KYIV, Feb 4 – Nuclear fuel produced by the U.S.-based Westinghouse Electric Corporation can be loaded amid the active phase of the second power unit of South-Ukrainian nuclear power plant (NPP) by 2020, Director General of the NPP Volodymyr Lisnichenko told the parliament's newspaper Holos Ukrainy in an interview.

KYIV, Feb 4 - Ukraine in January 2019 reduced imports of natural gas by 68.8%, or by 553.8 million cubic meters (mcm) compared to the same month of 2018, to 247.7 mcm, according to an update from Ukrtransgaz.

KYIV, Feb 4 - Zaporizhia-based steel mill Zaporizhstal, one of the largest taxpayers in Ukraine and Zaporizhia region in particular, reduced rolled steel production by 4.1% in January 2019 year-over-year, to 289,900 tons.

KYIV, Feb 5 – Ukrzaliznytsia has reduced the frequency of trains running to the Russian Federation, and from February 5, 2019, trains No. 24/23 Odesa-Moscow-Odesa and No. 20/19 Kharkiv-Moscow-Kharkiv will run every other day instead of the daily service.

KYIV, Feb 5 – The postal and logistics operator Meest Express Trading House LLC (Meest Express, Lviv) plans to develop the chain of its drop-off and pick-up points and increase the number of automated parcel terminals in Ukraine in 2019, CEO and President of the Meest Group Rostyslav Kisil told the Top 100 Ratings magazine in an interview.