MARIUPOL, Oct 30 – Ukraine should introduce restrictions on the ownership of mass media by Russian citizens and the participation of Russian capital in them, Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports Volodymyr Borodiansky said Wednesday.

KYIV, Oct 30 – Norway's NBT AS and China Electric Power Equipment and Technology Co., Ltd. (CET), an EPC subsidiary of State Grid Corporation of China, have signed two contracts for the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of Zofia II and Zofia III wind power plants with a capacity of 300 MW and 450 MW in Zaporizhia region respectively, which should become the largest wind farms in Europe.

KYIV, Oct 30 – The economic growth of Ukraine in 2020 will be 3%, according to the basic macroeconomic forecast prepared by the analytical department of Alfa-Bank (Kyiv).

KYIV, Oct 30 - The occupancy of Kyiv hotels in July-September 2018 was 52.4%, which is 4 percentage points more than in the same period of 2017, such statistics are presented in the study by CBRE Ukraine international consulting company (Kyiv).

KYIV, Oct 30 – Ukraine and France plan to create a joint weather center cluster for agriculture, the press service of the Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities Economy Ministry reported.

KYIV, Oct 30 - Ukraine as of October 30 threshed 57.5 million tons of grain and leguminous crops from an area of 13.3 million hectares (90% of the forecast) with the yield of 4.31 tons per ha, Ukraine's Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food has said on its website.

KYIV, Oct 30 - Schlumberger Services Ukraine LLC will provide coiled tubing (CT) services, including high-tech services using CT drilling rig and engineering support, for $92 million to Ukrgazvydobuvannia.

KYIV, Oct 30 - Ukraine in January-August 2018 imported 6.781 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas worth $1.932 billion, including 1.481 bcm worth $435.234 million in August 2018, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine has said.

KYIV, Oct 31 - Ukraine in January-August of this year purchased nuclear fuel for a total of $307.03 million, which is 3.2% less than for the same period in 2017 ($317.193 million).

KYIV, Oct 31 – The second auction to sell assets of Mykolaiv Shipyard Okean is scheduled for December 3.