KIEV, May 31 ??“ Energoatom, the national nuclear power generator, plans to make more than $5.5 billion in investment during the next nine years, Mykyta Kostiantynov, Energoatom??™s first vice president for economic policy and corporate development, said.

KIEV, May 31 ??“ Rostselmash, a large Russian farm machinery producer, asked the Ukrainian government to help it recover $13 million for the supply of combines under governmental guarantees in 1995, Rostselmash Director General Vadim Kovrizhkin said.

KIEV, May 31 ??“ TMM, one of the largest Ukrainian real estate development companies, plans to raise over $200 million this year in loans, according to TMM Director General Mykola Tolmachev.

KIEV, June 1 ??“ Trade on the Ukrainian grain market has been almost stopped due to uncertainty over the cancellation of wheat export quotas and impact of drought on the future grain harvest, according agriculture market experts.

KYIV, April 29 – Tedis Ukraine distribution company and tobacco manufacturer estimates the fall of the overall Ukrainian tobacco market by 5-7% in March 2020 compared to the same period in 2019, driven by lockdown measures.

KYIV, April 29 – The operators of the gas transmission systems of Ukraine and Hungary on May 1 launched virtual gas reverse by combining two physical points of gas transmission at the countries' borders into one virtual one, head of Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine (GTSOU) Serhiy Makogon has said.

KYIV, April 29 – Ukraine’s economy will probably shrink 2% on the year in 2020 instead of growing 3.2% forecast earlier due to the coronavirus pandemic in the country, Alfa-Bank said.

According to the forecast, the bank expects the economic contraction in the "most difficult" second quarter to reach 7%.

KYIV, April 29 – Fitch Ratings has revised the outlooks on seven Ukrainian banks to stable from positive and affirmed their Long-Term Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs), the agency said on its website.

KYIV, April 30 – Majority of Ukrainians said they will not be visiting shopping malls as frequently after coronavirus lockdown is lifted amid declining incomes and concerns of that illness may further spread, a study showed.

KYIV, April 30 – Ukraine, whose economy was crippled by the coronavirus lockdown, plans to start gradually reopening farmers’ markets across the country provided that local authorities put safety measures in place.