KYIV, Jan 25 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has improved its estimate of real gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2023 from 4.9% in the October forecast to 5.7%, maintaining growth expectations in 2024 at 3.6% and worsening the forecast for 2025 by 0.2 percentage points (pp) to 5.8%, the regulator said in a press release on Thursday.

KYIV, Jan 25 – Agricultural and industrial group of companies Ovostar Union, one of the leading producers of eggs and egg products in Ukraine, in 2022 reduced the production of chicken shell eggs by 9% compared to 2021, to 1.55 billion eggs, and sales by 6%, to 1.08 billion units.

KYIV, Jan 25 – The Ukrainian gas storage operator, Ukrtransgaz, has planned to overhaul ten wells, as well as intensify another 20 wells at one of the western Ukrainian underground gas storage facilities (UGS) in 2023.

KYIV, Jan 26 – State-owned energy trader Energy Company of Ukraine (ECU) and the Turkish company Karpowership, together with national and international organizations, plan to develop a project to finance and launch 500 MW of electric power from floating power plants for Ukraine.

KYIV, Jan 26 – Rising food prices are recorded in Ukraine, including the cost of a standard set of vegetables for cooking borscht, a Ukrainian beet soup, in January 2022 more than doubled the figure for January last year, according to a Tuesday posting on the website of the national scientific center Institute of Agrarian Economics (IAE).

KYIV, Jan 25 – Hydrogen can be widely used in Ukraine in 7-10 years, mainly within the framework of production clusters, Oleh Nykonorov, director of Regional Gas Company (RGC), believes.

KYIV, Jan 25 – The owner of the UFuture group, businessman Vasyl Khmelnitsky, has said that he and his family have no plans to leave Ukraine and go abroad, and expressed confidence that there will be no full-scale war and its threats are not justified.

KYIV, Jan 23 – The Infrastructure Ministry at present is attracting managers of Deutsche Bahn (DB) for cooperation and development of Ukrzaliznytsia as advisors with a possibility of changing their status later, Infrastructure Minister Vladyslav Krykliy has said.

DAVOS, Jan 23 – DTEK Energy Holding plans by 2040 to achieve a neutral level of emissions, Maksym Tymchenko, the group's director general, has told Interfax-Ukraine on the sidelines of the Ukrainian Breakfast in Davos organized by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation, WNISEF and Horizon Capital.

KYIV, Jan 23 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) is working on a project to develop the country's payment infrastructure based on ISO 20022 international standard in partnership with SWIFT with support from the Financial Sector Transformation project (USAID) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), according to the central bank's website.