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.

KYIV, Feb 26 – Poland's Mirbud S.A., a construction company, has officially registered Mirbud LLC with the head office in Kyiv and plans to step up engineering and road construction in Ukraine.

KYIV, Feb 26 - The nominal gross domestic product (GDP) of Ukraine, denominated in U.S. dollars, will increase to $122 billion in 2018 from $110 billion in 2017, the chief economist of Dragon Capital investment company, Olena Belan, predicts.

KYIV, Feb 27 - Epicenter K, which develops a network of construction hypermarkets in Ukraine, plans on March 3 to open a new Epicenter shopping center at 11a Bandery Street in Kyiv.

KYIV, Feb 27 - The average price of electricity sales by its producers to the wholesale market in the middle of February 2018 increased by 0.5% (by UAH 5.23 per MWh) compared to the first ten days of the month, to UAH 1,059/MWh, according to data from state enterprise Energorynok.