KYIV, March 26 – Ukraine in 2018 used 11 out of the 40 quotas for duty-free exports under the free trade area (FTA) agreement with the European Union, while export quotas for processed products from oil, sugar syrups, and an additional quota for exports of mushrooms were not used at all, according to the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade.

KYIV, March 26 – Power generation in Ukraine in January-February increased by 0.8% (231.2 million kWh) compared to the same period of 2018, to 29.514 billion kWh, the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, March 26 - Ukraine offered about 12 billion cubic meters in underground gas storage facilities to European energy companies to prevent possible gas supply disruption in January 2020, Ukrtransgaz, the state gas shipper, said Monday.

KYIV, March 26 – Ukraine in 2018 has raised $1 billion more international technical assistance compared with 2017: $6.6 billion for 618 projects, Ukraine's Economic Development and Trade Ministry reported.

KYIV, March 23 - The Irish low cost air carrier Ryanair, which intends from October 2018 to launch flights to Kyiv and Lviv, does not rule out the opening of a subsidiary in Ukraine in future, but this should be preceded by the development of the network and the basing of planes here, Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary has said at a press conference at Boryspil airport.

KRAMATORSK, March 23 - Fuhrlander Windtechnology LLC is mulling the issue of building a wind farm with the total installed capacity of around 250 MW in the Chornobyl exclusion zone, Deputy Director for Commercial Issues of Fuhrlander Windtechnology Yuriy Shevchenko told reporters during his visit to Kramatorsk organized by Ecoaction and Germanwatch on Thursday.

KYIV, March 23 – Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman instructed an ad hoc commission to review antidumping duties for mineral fertilizers to provide farmers with the required amount of mineral fertilizers for the sowing campaign.

KYIV, March 23 - The volume of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in Ukraine in 2017 increased by 37%, to $1.023 billion, their total number by 22%, to 67, such data are given in the report on the website of KPMG in Ukraine.

KYIV, March 23 – The ratio of the total state and guaranteed debt of Ukraine to GDP in 2017 fell from 80.9% to 71.8%, Deputy Finace Minister Yuriy Butsa has said.

KRAMATORSK, March 26 - Fuhrlander Windtechnology LLC is studying the organization of production of blades for wind turbines in Kramatorsk, Deputy Director for Commercial Issues of Fuhrlander Windtechnology Yuriy Shevchenko said.