KYIV, Dec 20 – The Russian aggressor on the night of December 20, 2022 once again fired at the oil and gas infrastructure of Naftogaz Group, according to a company press release.

KYIV, Dec 20 – The simplified taxation system of 2% introduced at the beginning of the war will be canceled by mid-2023 as the government had faced up to UAH 10 billion shortfall in funding, Danylo Hetmantsev, head of the parliamentary committee on finance, taxation and customs policy, said.

KYIV, Dec 20 – Power outages topped the list of obstacles to doing business during the war in November, and security again came in third place, according to the results of the seventh monthly survey of enterprises "Ukrainian business during the war" conducted in November 2022 by the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting (IER).

KYIV, Dec 21 – The Kyivstar mobile communications operator has launched the Mobile ID service, allowing the digital identification of persons for obtaining e-services using the mobile number.

KYIV, Dec 21 – The Naftogaz Group in 2018 due to debts under public service obligations (PSO) and debts of regional gas suppliers for balancing services to Ukrtransgaz has negative net cash flow and will enter 2019 with the smallest amount of cash on the balance sheet, which complicates purchase of gas in the peak of the heating season, national joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrayiny CEO Andriy Kobolev has said.

KYIV, Dec 21 – Pivdenne, the rocket design bureau, has equipped the its computer center with the most powerful super computer in Ukraine into operation, the press service of the bureau reported on Thursday.

KYIV, Dec 21 – Donbasenergo has signed a contract with Dongfang Electric International Corporation (China) for reconstruction of unit No. 6 of the Sloviansk thermal power plant (TPP) with its division into units 6A and 6B of 330 MW each.

KYIV, Dec 21 – Zaporizhia Ferroalloy Plant (ZFP) could halt from January 1, 2019 over the absence of the approval of the power supply contract by state-owned enterprise (SOE) Energomarket.

KYIV, Dec 21 – The state nuclear power generator Energoatom, U.S.-based Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) and U.S.-based Central Storage Safety Project Trust (CSSPT) signed an agreement on a $250 million loan for the construction of a centralized spent nuclear fuel storage facility.

KYIV, Dec 21 – The interagency commission for organization of signing and implementing the product sharing agreements (PSA) would soon present three projects at a tender with participation of international bidders aiming to attract an investor, the commission head, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Ihor Nasalyk has said.