KYIV, Aug 26 - The installed capacity of alternative energy enterprises sun, water, biogas in Zhytomyr region has already exceeded 240 MW and will increase by another 53 MW by the end of the year, head of the regional military administration Vitaliy Bunechko said.

KYIV, Aug 27 – ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih (Dnipropetrovsk region) suspended coke production on Monday evening due to power outages.

KYIV, Aug 27 – The British government's Regional Recovery project will help five Ukrainian territorial communities draft development strategies until 2027 and present investment attractiveness to attract donor funds for the implementation of restoration projects, the project's press service reports.

KYIV, Aug 27 – The UN World Food Programme (WFP) sent 23,000 tonnes of corn from Ukraine to Mozambique and Malawi as part of the Grain from Ukraine program, the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food reported.

KYIV, Aug 24 – The Government of Norway is allocating NOK 1.5 billion to ensure the import of gas and electricity to Ukraine.

"The Ukrainian authorities need our help to provide electricity and heat for houses and dwellings, businesses and government institutions on the eve of a new winter," the press service reports, citing a statement by Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.

KYIV, Aug 25 – The transit of Russian gas through Ukraine after 2024 can be continued only by agreement with importers, Ukrainian Ambassador to Moldova Marko Shevchenko has said.

KYIV, Aug 25 – China's CNBM, which owns a number of solar power plants in Ukraine, intends to abandon the $500 million lawsuit in international arbitration and not file new ones due to the reduction of the feed-in tariff, Head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Energy and Housing Andriy Gerus has said.

KYIV, Aug 25 – Capital expenditure in Ukraine in the first half of this year fell by 34.9% after falling by 35.5% in the first quarter of this year and growing by 21.2% in the fourth quarter of last year, the State Statistics Service said on Tuesday.

KYIV, Aug 26 - Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko has instructed Kyivmiskbud Holding Company to audit the Evryka, Patriotyka and Patriotyka on the Lakes residential complexes of the Construction Financing Fund managed by Arcada Bank in order to complete the construction of the facilities.

KYIV, Aug 25 – A Ukrainian government agency was forced to step in and take over Bank Arcada after the bank had failed to meet its financial obligations and to prevent panic money withdrawals, officials said Tuesday.