KYIV, March 3 – Severodonetsk Azot, part of Dmytro Firtash's Group DF nitrogen business, has begun preparatory work to launch workshops of ammonia and carbamide production, a representative of Group DF has said.

KYIV, March 4 – All groups of banks responded to monetary policy easing by lowering loan rates, foreign banks cut the rates the most, to 12.7% per annum on average, Kateryna Rozhkova, the First Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), has said.

KYIV, Feb 28 – Sugar production in the 2019/20 agricultural year (September-August) in Ukraine will be 1.5-1.6 million tons, which is 15-20% less than in the previous agri-year, Deputy Board Chairperson of the Ukrtsukor Association Ruslana Butylo has said at the Sugar World 2019 congress.

KYIV, March 1 – Parliament has passed in second reading a bill aimed at reduction of shortage of scrap ferrous metals on the domestic market (No. 9474), increasing the scrap export duty from EUR 42 to EUR 58 per ton and extending it for two more years.

KYIV, March 1 – Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP) has completed the first phase of a biogas complex with a capacity of 12 MW at the Ladyzhyn poultry farm in Vinnytsia region and in March the plant will start generating electricity from biogas, MHP ECO Energy Director Ivan Traksler said at the Ukrainian Energy Forum on Thursday.

KYIV, March 1 – National joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrainy is mulling a possibility of adding an additional volume of gas to the underground gas storage facilities of Ukraine if Russia's Gazprom stops gas transit across the country after 2019, Naftogaz CEO Andriy Kobolev told reporters after a press conference in Kyiv on Friday.

KYIV, March 1 – The international company EuroCape New Energy intends in 2019 to install the first wind turbines with a capacity of 98 MW under the project of construction of a large wind power plant in Zaporizhia region, which has been implemented since 2009, EuroCape New Energy head for emerging markets Adrien Fouchet has told journalists on the sidelines of the Ukrainian Energy Forum.

KYIV, March 1 – The tribunal at the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague has confirmed Russia's guilt in the loss of assets in Crimea by Naftogaz Ukrayiny, Naftogaz Head Andriy Kobolev has said.

KYIV, March 1 – Revenue of Ukrainian banks, not taking into account insolvent ones, totaled UAH 20.18 billion in January 2019, which is 38% more than in January 2018, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has reported on its website.

KYIV, March 4 – The decision of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine ruling unconstitutional Article 268-2 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (illicit enrichment) is a serious setback in the fight against corruption in Ukraine, according to a joint statement of the G7 and the World Bank.