KYIV, Aug 30 – Ukraine in the 2020/2021 marketing year (MY, July-June) increased onion exports by 80% compared to 2019/2020 MY, to 34,100 tons for a total of $6.5 million, its export figures hit a record in the past eight years.

KYIV, Aug 30 – Ukraine needs to import approximately 3.5 million tons of thermal coal during the coming heating season, Energy Minister Herman Haluschenko has said.

KYIV, Aug 30 – The Cabinet of Ministers, by August 31, needs to elaborate the issue of creating a new Ukraine-EU hydrogen product pipeline and raising investments for the project implementation.

KYIV, Aug 31 - The Ministry of Energy is developing a new national plan for the reduction of emissions from large combustion plants, Energy Minister Herman Haluschenko has said.

KYIV, Aug 31 - The Cabinet of Ministers included Turboatom, more than 75.22% of which belong to the state, to the list of objects of large privatization, while approving the joining of Electrotyazhmash Plant (both based in Kharkiv) after the corporatization of the state-owned enterprise.

KYIV, Aug 31 - ICU Investment Group has launched the ICU Trade mobile application, which allows you to buy and sell government domestic loan bonds in real time from all mobile devices.

According to the company's press release, this is the first such mobile application on the Ukrainian market.

KYIV, Aug 31 - Spacebit has announced the first Ukrainian mission to the moon, which will take place in 2022, according to a press release from TitanEra LLC, associated with the developer of titanium ores Production and Commercial Company Velta LLC.

KYIV, Aug 31 – Morgan Stanley has downgraded the estimate of Ukraine's GDP growth in 2021 to 3.4% compared to 4.5%, as previously expected, and predict a 4.2% GDP growth in 2022, according to the materials available to Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, Aug 29 – Nine members of an international criminal group, including three Russian citizens, are accused by the SBU security service of the deliberate destruction of Ukraine's only aluminum producer, Zaporizhia-based ZAlK plant, in the interests of competitors from Russia.

KYIV, Aug 29 – Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Ukraine as equity capital as of July 1, was $39 billion, which was up 4.4%, or $1.66 billion, on the beginning of the year, the State Statistics Service said on Tuesday.