KIEV, July 1 ??“ Under more active commercial relations, commodity turnover between Ukraine and Syria may grow 66.7%, to $1 billion, First Deputy Prime Minister Anatoliy Kinakh said at a Ukrainian-Syrian Business Forum in Kiev.

KYIV, June 2 – President of Energy Systems at Westinghouse Electric Company David Durham does not rule out that the first small modular reactor (SMR) AP300 can be built in Ukraine.

KYIV, June 4 – Megatex LLC, the manufacturer of batteries from used batteries, has asked President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to help solve the problem of legalizing the purchase of recyclable materials.

KYIV, June 3 – Former President Petro Poroshenko reported UAH 772.960 million of income and paid almost UAH 188 million of taxes in 2019, according to his press service.

KYIV, June 4 – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, six weeks after dismissing a reformist head of the Customs Service, said Wednesday a new plan of cracking on illegal imports will take two or three years to bring results.

KYIV, June 3 – The European Investment Bank (EIB) will provide a EUR300 million loan for a project on the energy efficiency of public buildings in Ukraine under an agreement with the Ministry for Communities and Territories Development on cooperation in consultations within preparing the project.

KYIV, June 4 – The Cabinet of Ministers approved the draft amendments to the 2020 national budget on the provision of government guarantees of Ukrhydroenergo for the implementation of projects to finish the third stage of Dnistrovska pumped storage plant (PSP) and the construction of Kaniv PSP with minor revision.

KYIV, June 4 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny expects the energy regulator soon will make decisions to ease the rules of changing a supplier of natural gas by households as part of the opening of the retail market scheduled for July 1, 2020, Head of Naftogaz Ukrayiny gas supplying company LLC Maksym Rabinovych said.

KYIV, June 4 – Representatives of some European gas transmission system (GTS) operators, who were involved in the creation of the independent operator of the Ukrainian GTS, have started working on the posts of advisers of director general of branch Transmission System Operator of Ukraine (TSO of Ukraine), Ukrtransgaz reported.

KYIV, June 4 - The shift in trade tensions between the United States and China into a higher gear was one of the main factors triggering capital flight to safe-haven assets and the selloff of emerging market (EM) assets, and in Ukraine the situation is complicated by increased uncertainty, the NBU said in its macroeconomic survey for May 2019.