KYIV, Feb 26 – Ukraine plans to build a nuclear fuel fabrication plant at the site of the Yuzhnoukrainsk nuclear power plant (NPP), announcing a tender to build and finance the project in autumn 2019, Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Ihor Nasalyk has said.

KYIV, Feb 26 – A total of 102,200 tons of anthracite imported by Ukraine from Belarus in 2018 were not extracted on the non-government controlled areas in Donbas, UEnergy and Coal Industry Minister Ihor Nasalyk has said.

KYIV, Feb 26 – Motor Sich does not have information about plans of the state to invest in the company, which were presented in mass media by top managers in the defense industry, as well as about the possible participation of the state in capitalization of the company, Head of the supervisory board of Motor Sich Anatoliy Malysh has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, Feb 26 – The interagency working group for reform of the State Fiscal Service has decided that the central administration and territorial departments of the future State Tax Service will be merged into one legal entity and the same will be done for the State Customs Service, a member of the interagency working group from the Union of Ukrainian Entrepreneurs (SUP), Andriy Yerashov, has said.

KYIV, Feb 27 – The Constitutional Court has ruled unconstitutional the article of the Criminal Code of Ukraine on illicit enrichment of officials, as its provisions violate presumption of innocence.

KYIV, Feb 27 – Up to 300 MW of wind power capacities could be introduced in Ukraine in 2019, which is at least twice more than in 2018, Board Chairman of the Ukrainian Wind Energy Association (UWEA) Andriy Konechenkov has said.

KYIV, Feb 27 – State-owned enterprise Pivdenmash has proposed to build a launch pad for launching new Ukrainian light rockets in Ukraine.

"For more than the past five years, Pivdenmash has been developing technical proposals for the creation of new multi-purpose light Ukrainian launch vehicles (LV).

KYIV, Feb 27 - Industrial production in Ukraine in January decreased by 3.3% compared with January 2018, whereas in January last year its growth by 4.3% was recorded, the State Statistics Service has reported.

KYIV, Feb 27 - Capital investments in Ukraine in 2017 grew by 22.1% against 18% in 2016, the State Statistics Service has reported.

According to the service, over the past year UAH 412.8 billion of capital investments (excluding the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea, Sevastopol and part of the ATO zone) were used.

KYIV, Feb 27 - BNP Paribas S.A. (France) has increased its stake in UkrSibbank (Kyiv) to 60% from 59.99%, the Ukrainian bank reported in the information disclosure system of the National Securities and Stock Market Commission.