KYIV, May 29 – Housing commissioning in Ukraine in January-March decreased by 22% compared to the same period in 2019, to 1.914 million square meters, the State Statistics Service has said.

KYIV, May 29 – The production of construction materials decreased significantly during lockdown in the Ukrainian market, according to data of the All-Ukrainian Association of Manufacturers of Construction Materials.

KYIV, May 29 – Ukraine’s main labor market problem is low productivity, not coronavirus, and this is plaguing the country for the past 15 years, National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Governor Yakiv Smolii said Friday.

KYIV, May 29 – Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said that he has signed on behalf of the Cabinet of Ministers the second stage of the intergovernmental agreement on the purchase of helicopters produced by Airbus Helicopters.

KYIV, May 29 - Hryvnia-pegged deposit rates could continue the downward trend, according to bankers polled by Interfax-Ukraine.

Deputy Board Chairman of bank Credit Dnepr Andriy Moiseyenko said that if the political and macro-economic stability remains deposit rates could fall by 1-1.5 percentage points (p.p.) this year.

KYIV, May 30 - Real wages in Ukraine increased by 12.5% on the year in April and 0.4% from March, the State Statistics Service reported.

The average nominal wage of full-day workers in April 2018 compared to March 2018 increased by 1.2%, in annual terms rose by 27.3%, amounting to UAH 8,382, whereas in March it was UAH 8,382, February UAH 7,828, January some UAH 7,711.

KYIV, May 31 – Ukraine’s state railroad company Ukrzaliznytsia plans to create a separate rail car company, which in 2018 and 2019 would buy 3,500 cars each year using a loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), acting Board Chairman of Ukrzaliznytsia Yevhen Kravtsov said at the UZ: Investor Day 2018 conference in Odesa on Wednesday.

KYIV, May 31 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) could toughen its monetary policy and introduce some currency restrictions if the inflation pressure worsens and if Ukraine fails to receive the new tranche from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF), NBU Governor Yakiv Smolii said.

KYIV, May 30 – The surplus of Ukraine's balance of payments in April was $290 million, according to preliminary data posted on the website of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU).

KYIV, May 30 – Ukrzaliznytsia intends to invest more than UAH 26 billion in 2018 and wants to attract another $2 billion of private investments, the company has said.