KYIV, Feb 1 – Ukraine's pharmaceutical market in 2022 decreased by 42% in quantity terms and by 23% in monetary terms, according to the latest research by SMD. The cumulative sales on the pharmaceutical market in 2022 amounted to about UAH 61 billion, according to SMD.

LUXEMBOURG, Feb 1 – Ukraine is likely to produce 49.5 million metric tons of grain in 2023-2024 marketing season, the Economy Ministry forecast on Wednesday. The forecast is better than 46 million mt the was recently forecast by the National Bank of Ukraine, First Deputy Minister Denys Kudin said.

KYIV, Jan 31 – National Nuclear Generating Company Energoatom, taking into account the political situation, has prepared an order to harden the protection of its nuclear facilities and their infrastructure, Head of Energoatom Petro Kotin has said.

KYIV, Feb 1 – Poland's PGNiG has purchased a shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the United States for delivery to the Ukrainian border for ERU Europe, ERU Trading said in a press release on Tuesday.

KYIV, Feb 1 – Poland is ready to provide defense, gas and humanitarian aid to Ukraine, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has said.

"We are seeking such assistance to Ukraine in the EU, in NATO countries. But Poland is also ready to provide Ukraine with assistance to the best of its ability in matters of the gas sector, defense capability, economic stabilization, as well as in humanitarian issues, which we are already doing," Morawiecki said at the briefing with Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal on Tuesday.

KYIV, Feb 1 – President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky told Executive Vice President of the European Commission Valdis Dombrovskis that EU’s EUR 1.2-bln macro-financial assistance package has helped to support the hryvnia.

KYIV, Feb 1 – The new alliance Ukraine-Poland-U.K. is an association of countries that share common principles, strive to strengthen security and develop trade, and are ready for concrete actions, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has said.

KYIV, Jan 29 – The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine allowed Nebras Power Investment Management B.V. (Netherlands), a member of the Qatar group Nebras, to receive 50% or more in six companies operating solar and wind power plants of businessman Vasyl Khmelnytsky and his partners.

KYIV, Jan 29 – The State Environmental Inspectorate of Ukraine has approved a plan to inspect enterprises for 2021, intends to check Pivdenny Mining and Processing Plant (Dnipropetrovsk region) for compliance with environmental legislation from February 8 of this year, Head of the State Environmental Inspectorate Andriy Maliovany has said.

KYIV, Jan 29 – The number of people that are confident that consumer goods they use have been legally imported in Ukraine has increased over the past 12 months, data provided by the Ukrainian Institute of the Future (UIF) shows.