KYIV, Jan 31 – U.S. Westinghouse will need about two years to be ready to meet the needs of National Nuclear Generating Company Energoatom for fuel for 13 existing VVER-1000 reactors, for this time there is enough fuel at nuclear power plants, Head of Energoatom Petro Kotin has said.

KYIV, Jan 28 – Among 136 company executives surveyed by the European Business Association, some 45% are ready to continue operating even in the event of a Russian military invasion of Ukraine, another 17% of companies consider the relocation to the western regions, some 10% think of leaving the country in the worst-case scenario, while 7% fear that external aggression may lead to the closure of their business.

KYIV, Jan 31 – National Nuclear Generating Company Energoatom and U.S. Westinghouse have started a program to switch nuclear power units to 18-month fuel campaigns, Acting President of Energoatom Petro Kotin has said.

KYIV, Jan 28 – President Volodymyr Zelensky and Prime Minister of Spain Pedro Sanchez discussed areas of cooperation between the countries, including energy, infrastructure, digitalization and cybersecurity.

KYIV, Jan 29 – Swedish-based IKEA, the world's largest retailer of furniture and household goods, will open the first city-format store in Ukraine on February 1 in the Blockbuster Mall shopping and entertainment center in Kyiv, the company has reported.

KYIV, Jan 29 – The adoption by Parliament of the of bill No. 4358 on the protection of the public health from harmful effects of tobacco will not allow harmonizing Ukrainian tobacco legislation with the European one, but will provoke the growth of the illegal market segment and increase the costs of legal business, the European Business Association (EBA) believes and proposes to revise it.

KYIV, Jan 29 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny plans to buy natural gas for supplies to Ukraine through an interconnector with the European Union for EUR 80.4 million, raised from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) as part of the eurobonds' placement in 2019.

KYIV, Jan 29 – The total wage arrears in Ukraine in 2020 increased by 3.4%, and as of January 1, 2021 amounted to UAH 3.137 billion, while in December 2020 it decreased by 21.8%, the State Statistics Service said on Thursday.

KYIV, Jan 29 – At a meeting with the mayors and the leadership of Naftogaz Ukrayiny, it was agreed that local tariffs for heat and hot water would not rise, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

KYIV, Jan 31 – Ukraine’s security service SBU intervened on Sunday to stop a hostile takeover by Chinese investors of the country’s only producer of aircraft engines Motor Sich, exacerbating a three-year dispute.