KYIV, April 23 – Ukraine is forced to deploy a large number of natural gas power generating units to balance growing number of solar power plants and wind farms, Ukrenergo Head Vsevolod Kovalchuk said.

KYIV, April 23 – Ukrainian importers would be able to change the sources of oil and fuel supplies without serious problems, if Belarus provides on time the details on the situation around the quality of oil imported to the country, the scale of damage caused to Mozyr Oil Refinery and the time needed for their removal.

KYIV, April 23 – The Cabinet of Ministers and national joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrayiny have agreed on the reduction of the price of natural gas for households and heat suppliers from May 1, 2019 by 3.5%, to UAH 8,247 from UAH 8,550 per 1,000 cubic meters, the press service of Naftogaz has reported.

KYIV, April 23 – Ukraine's Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak has said the launching of a middle-sized reconnaissance ship built at the Kuznya on Rybalsky shipyard in Kyiv is a major achievement.

KYIV, April 24 – China National Building Material Group (CNBM) with a large portfolio of solar power plants in Ukraine, would refrain from further investment until the problem issues around its Ukrainian assets are settled, Deputy Director General of CNBM LLC in Ukraine Tian Wei said.

KYIV, April 24 – Transmission system operators of Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, and Moldova have preliminarily approved the distribution of functions for holding auctions for cross-border trade with electricity, the press service of national energy company Ukrenergo.

KYIV, April 24 – The Cabinet of Ministers has increased the requirement for sending part of net profit of state-owned enterprises (SOE) to the national budget for 2019 from 75% to 90%, and annulled the decreased requirements for separate enterprises.

KYIV, April 24 – Norway's NBT and France's Total Eren have finalized an agreement on the second phase of the project financing of construction of the 250 MW Syvash wind farm (Kherson region) in the amount of EUR 107.6 million, INTEGRITES law firm, which advised the companies, has said in a press release.

KYIV, April 25 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) plans in 2019 to increase the volume of investment in the Ukrainian economy to $1 billion, head of the Ukrainian office of the EBRD Marina Petrov stated.

"The $500 million that we invested last year was not bad at all.

KYIV, April 26 - The total assessment of labor migrants from Ukraine for 2015-2017 is four million people, economist at Ukraine's Center for Economic Strategy Yulia Ruda said.