KYIV, Dec 22 – Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Economic Development Dmytro Kysylevsky calls on the government to responsibly negotiate with the EU within the framework of the Green Deal initiative.

KYIV, Dec 22 - Starting from March 2020, 18.8% of Ukrainian companies were forced to reduce salaries to their employees due to quarantine; 72.4% reported that quarantine did not affect their work, and therefore there was no revision of salaries, and 8.8% of companies, on the contrary, increased them this year.

KYIV, Dec 24 – The legislative initiative of the government about treating e-cigarettes and tobacco-containing refill containers as conventional cigarettes is far beyond the European Union (EU) regulation practice, Director of External Relations at Philip Morris Ukraine Natalia Bondarenko said.

KYIV, Dec 24 – Ukraine would receive income of $15 billion in five years of transit of Russian natural gas, according to Minister of Energy and Environment Protection of Ukraine Oleksiy Orzhel.

KYIV, Dec 24 – The National Commission of Ukraine for Energy, Housing and Utilities Services Regulation (NCER) on Tuesday approved the tariffs of Operator of Gas Transmission System (OGTS) for gas transmission services for entry and exit points of the pipeline network for 2020-2024.

KYIV, Dec 24 – The National Commission of Ukraine for Energy, Housing and Utilities Services Regulation (NCER) granted a license to OGTS, a newly created gas shipper, to operate the country’s gas pipelines from January 1, 2020.

KYIV, Dec 26 – Ukroboronprom's State Enterprise Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau has shipped to Ukraine's Ministry of Defense 12 armored personnel carriers (BTR-4E) from the state defense procurement order of 2019.

KYIV, Dec 26 – Ukraine’s Shostka State Plant Impulse launched production of artillery shells and missile weapons to create production cycle that relies only on domestic parts, the Ukroboronprom defense group reported Thursday.

KYIV, Dec 21 - Paritetbank of Belarus whose 99.8267% stake belongs to the state sent a package of documents to the National Bank of Ukraine on Thursday, December 21, to agree on the acquisition of a 100% stake in Sberbank (Ukraine), a subsidiary of Sberbank of Russia.

KYIV, Dec 21 – Ukraine in 2018 plans to increase the share of nuclear fuel purchase from Westinghouse for its nuclear power plants (NPPs) from 40% to 55%, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Ihor Nasalyk said.