KYIV, Feb 1 - Ukraine is technically ready to impose a tax on withdrawn capital, which should replace corporate profit tax, Thomas Otten, the director of Otten consulting company, said.

KYIV, Feb 2 – Ukrainian steel and mining enterprises, the backbone of the country’s economy, in January 2018 boosted rolled steel output by 10% year-over-year, to 1.683 million tons.

KIEV, Feb. 1 - Ukraine since the beginning of the 2015/2016 heating season has depleted natural gas stocks in its underground gas storage facilities (UGS) by 34.6%, or 5.899 billion cubic meters.

KIEV, Feb. 2 – Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk has set a task to Ukrzaliznytsia and participants of the new container train running the so-called New Silk Road to cut the time of its trip to 10 days.

KIEV, Feb. 2 – Turboatom (Kharkiv), Ukraine's largest producer of turbine equipment, on February 1 signed a contract with India's Trafalgar to supply spare parts for power equipment operating four turbines with a capacity of 240 MW at Rajasthan (RAPP) and Kaiga nuclear power plants in India, the company reported on Tuesday.

KIEV, Feb. 2 – Saudi Arabia is ready to invest up to $1 billion in irrigation projects in Ukraine, Agrarian Policy and Food Minister Oleksiy Pavlenko told journalists in Kiev.

KIEV, Feb. 4 – National Nuclear Generating Company EnergoAtom has signed an agreement on designing and introduction of modified technologies to treat waste nuclear fuel with Holtec International (the United States), according to EnergoAtom’s announcement in the Visnyk Derzhavnykh Zakupivel state procurements bulletin.

KIEV, Feb. 3 – The standalone subdivision Yuzhnoukrainsk nuclear power plant, which also operates the Tashlyk pumped storage plant and Oleksandrivka hydropower plant, has enhanced security, the plant reported.

KIEV, Feb. 3 - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has attracted Raiffeisen Bank Aval (Kiev) to the realization of the EBRD's Sustainable Energy Financing Framework, a new $100 million financing program, the Kiev office of the bank has reported.

KIEV, Feb. 4 – The volume of trading with foreign currency on the Ukrainian interbank market hit a record for the second week in a row: over five days, from January 27 to January 31, the indicator reached $19.83 billion, including $18.14 billion of trading with the U.S. dollar.