KYIV, June 30 – Kyiv International Airport named after Sikorsky has started a phased reduction of its employees, amid the crisis in the aviation industry due to the coronavirus pandemic, the airport's press service has said.

KYIV, June 30 – A group of foreign and domestic owners of solar power plants have asked President Volodymyr Zelensky to support their proposal to extend the feed-in tariffs for solar power plants by two years when considering bill No. 3658 on the conditions for the development of renewable generation, providing for their reduction by 15%.

KYIV, June 30 – Ukrenergo has signed a contract with Xian Electric Engineering Co. Ltd. (China) for the reconstruction of two substations of Zakhidna power system (Zakhidna PS) — 330 kV Rivne and 220 kV Kalush with the contract cost of EUR 26.98 million (without VAT).

KYIV, July 1 – On July 1, the first supply of natural gas by ERU Management Services LLC (the ERU Group) to Romania via Moldova took place.

"The agreement reached as to the use of the Moldovan gas transmission system opens the way for gas transit from Ukrainian underground storages to the market of Romania and other Balkan states," the group said in a press release.

KYIV, June 27 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny expects a Stockholm arbitration decision on the tariff revision for the gas transit contract with Russia's Gazprom before November 2021, the group's consolidated report said on Thursday.

KYIV, June 27 – National energy Company Naftogaz Ukrayiny in 2018 saw UAH 11.567 billion in net profit, which is 70.6% less than in 2017 (UAH 39.449 billion), according to the group's consolidated statements published on Thursday.

KYIV, June 27 – Revenue of Metinvest B.V. (the Netherlands), the parent company of the Metinvest mining and metallurgical group, fell by 7.5% or by $77 million in April compared with the previous month, to $954 million from $1.031 billion.

KYIV, June 27 – Lviv-based Yavoriv Enerho 2 LLC will construct a wind farm with a capacity of 50 MW in Yavorivsky district, Lviv region.

This information was made public in the Unified National Environmental Impact Assessment Registry.

KYIV, June 27 – Ukrainian Oil & Gas Association estimates the loss of the national and local budgets caused by the shadow petroleum market in 2018 at UAH 10 billion, the president of the association, Nelya Pryvalova, has said during a press conference hosted by Interfax-Ukraine in June 25.

KYIV, June 27 – Ukraine's largest ferroalloy smelters Nikopol and Zaporizhia ferroalloy works reduced ferroalloy output by 3.2% in January-May 2019 to 433,170 tons as compared with the same period in 2018, the Ukrainian Ferroalloy Producers' Association told Interfax-Ukraine.