KYIV, Dec 26 – Construction costs for 2023 grew by up to 20%, which will affect price hikes in 2024, Head of the Greenville Kyiv sales department Susanna Karakhanian has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, Dec 26 – Participants in the sectoral working group on green metallurgy, working as part of the preparation of the implementation plan for the Ukraine Facility and the development of industry development strategies, discussed proposals from businesses regarding 46 projects totaling $7.4 billion.

KYIV, Dec 26 – In 2024, Energoatom will focus on the process of licensing tops for fuel assemblies from the U.S. company Westinghouse to establish their industrial production at its facilities along with bottom nozzles.

KYIV, Dec 21 – The aggressor's invasion of Ukraine froze the real estate market in most Ukrainian cities, in order to overcome the negative consequences, many objects will be forced to carry out extreme reconstruction, Kostiantyn Oliynyk, the head of the UTG strategic consulting department, told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, Dec 21 – Stalkanat, the Odesa-based steel cable producer, is currently operating at 10% of its capacity due to power supply restrictions and is mulling the purchase of a generator to stabilize operation.

KYIV, Dec 21 – The current regime of a fixed official exchange rate is a rational solution in a military situation, and the existing difference between the official and the cash market rate of 10% is acceptable in the current conditions, Oleksandr Pysaruk, the CEO of Raiffeisen Bank (Kyiv), believes.

KYIV, Dec 22 – Energoatom President Petro Kotin and Cameco President and CEO Tim Gitzel discussed the possibility of purchasing uranium hexafluoride from the Canadian company for the production of nuclear fuel for Ukrainian nuclear power plants during an online meeting on Wednesday.

KYIV, Dec 23 – ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih is currently operating at a 20% capacity, the production of metal goods has fallen by 66%, said Mauro Longobardo, the general director of the enterprise, in an address to employees of the enterprise.

KYIV, Dec 26 – In 2022, the fertilizer market of Ukraine fell by about 40-55% - from 4.75 million tons to 2-2.9 million tons, it reached its bottom in early summer and began to recover quickly, wrote the director of corporate communications at Group DF, Oleh Arestarkhov, in a column for Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, Dec 23 – Energoatom next year does not plan to supply spent nuclear fuel from nuclear power plants (NPPs) of Ukraine for storage to the Russian Federation, President of Energoatom Petro Kotin has said.