KYIV, April 30 – Ukraine will seek to save thousands of jobs in the coal mining sector as the country’s demand for energy has collapsed due to coronavirus quarantine since March, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said.

KYIV, April 26 – Ukraine seeks to take part in several projects in Egypt, in particular projects on modernization of a steel works and reconstruction of a coke-oven battery for a company, Ukraine's First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Economic Development and Trade Stepan Kubiv said.

KYIV, April 27 – Hungary's low cost airline Wizz Air is expanding its flight network from Kyiv, boosting the total number of destinations from 21 to 23.

According to the booking system of the airline, the new flights are scheduled for Vienna, Berlin and Frankfurt on the Main, although Wizz Air would not fly to Frankfurt-Hahn.

KYIV, April 26 – Construction of a storage facility for used nuclear fuel will pay for itself in two years, and its filling is designed for 50 years, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said.

KYIV, April 26 – The state gas shipper Ukrtransgaz and Poland's Gaz-System S.A. have extended a non-binding market screening procedure for demand on the volume of natural gas that could be transported across Ukraine to Poland until June 8, 2018, the press service of the Ukrainian company has reported.

KYIV, April 26 - The participation of international companies in the management of Ukraine's gas transportation system (GTS) can improve its competitiveness, German Ambassador to Ukraine Ernst Reichel said.

KYIV, April 26 - Ukraine increased ferroalloy output 3.8% year-on-year in Q1 2018 to 266,320 tons, the Ukrainian Ferroalloy Producers' Association has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, April 26 - The aggregate state (direct) and state-guaranteed debt of Ukraine in March 2018 increased by 0.79%, or by $600 million, to $77.37 billion, according to the website of the Ministry of Finance.

KYIV, May 2 – The occupancy of Kyiv hotels in the first quarter of 2018 increased by 4 percentage points compared to the same period a year earlier and amounted to 43%, the press service of Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) consulting company in Ukraine has said.

KYIV, April 27 – The state rail company Ukrzaliznytsia is mulling a new eurobond issue linked to the hryvnia by the end of this year and has already received approvals from ministries to issue domestic bonds for a total of UAH 2 billion, the company said.