KIEV, March 1 – Traditional Ukrainian dairy products could be promising for exports to the European Union to satisfy demand of ethnic groups of population, economist of the technical cooperation department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UN FAO) Andriy Yarmak said.

KIEV, March 1 - Real wages in Ukraine fell by 13.2% year-on-year in January, and by 19.7% from December 2015, the State Statistics Service reported.

KIEV, March 2 – Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers has approved a UAH 8.7 billion state-funded targeted program for the development of 17 Ukrainian airports through 2023.

KIEV, March 2 – Around 50% of freight wagons of the Ukrzaliznytsia's rolling stock are to be written off in the next three or four years, Director for Reformation, Law and Assets Policy and a member of the board of public joint-stock company Ukrzaliznytsia Yevhen Kravtsov said.

KIEV, March 2 – The total debt of banks on credits taken from the National Bank of Ukraine as of February 1, 2016 reached UAH 103.188 billion, director of the risk management department Ihor Budnyk said.

KIEV, Feb. 27 – A ban on flour exports will not stop the rise in price of flour on the Ukrainian market, the Lauffer Group said.

"The ban on exporting flour will not be a hindering factor on price growth. The Ukrainian flour market does not face a shortage of flour, it has always seen extra amounts of flour," the company told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Feb. 27 - The total sum of wage arrears in Ukraine rose 11% in January, the State Statistics Service reported.

According to the State Statistics Service, wage arrears on February 1, 2015 amounted to UAH 1.466 billion, or 5.1% of the monthly wage fund for January.

KIEV, Feb. 27 – Ukraine's national oil and gas company Naftogaz Ukrayiny has transferred Gazprom $15 million in prepayment for shipments of Russian gas in March, Naftogaz CEO Andrei Kobolev told journalists on Friday.

SIMFEROPOL, Feb. 27 - The Crimean authorities have nationalized some 250 private facilities and no new decisions on nationalization will be made, Sergei Aksyonov, the head of the Republic of Crimea, said.

SIMFEROPOL/MOSCOW/KIEV, March 2 – The parliament of Crimea has nationalized the property of the Ukrainian mobile communications operator Kyivstar in the region, Sergei Aksyonov, the head of the Republic of Crimea, said.