KYIV, July 25 – British-based Ferrexpo plc in January-March 2019 invested UAH 1.3 billion (over $47.5 million) in the development of Poltava, Yeristovo and Belanovo mining and processing plants (GOK) it controls, which is 73.6% more than the investments for the same period in 2018 in the hryvnia (over UAH 748.9 million) and 71% in U.S. dollars (over $27.8 million).

KYIV, July 24 – There are no reasons to postpone the trilateral Ukraine-Russia-EU meeting to discuss gas transit after 2019 after the completion of elections to the Parliament, but technical consultations should be held before it, Yuriy Vitrenko, the executive director of Naftogaz Ukrainy, has said.

KYIV, July 24 – Nova Poshta group of companies since the beginning of 2019 has increased the number of branches in the network by 1,200, or 42.9%, to 4,000, the group has said.

KYIV, July 25 – UDP Renewables, part of the Ukrainian investment group UFuture, has put into commercial operation the Scythia Solar-2 (Skifiya Solar-2) solar power plant with a capacity of 33.1 MW in Melitopol (Zaporizhia region).

KYIV, July 25 – The Bioenergy Association of Ukraine (BAU), together with the associations uniting the leading producers of electricity from renewable energy sources, have addressed President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky regarding the situation with the payment for purchased electricity from alternative sources at a feed-in tariff.

KYIV, July 25 – The Council of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), following a meeting on July 23, recommended that the central bank's board update the study on the validity of the target inflation rate, chairman of the council Bohdan Danylyshyn has said.

KYIV, July 24 - Ukraine in the first half of 2018 exported fruit and berries worth $100 million, which is 59% more than in the same period of 2017.

According to the Ukrsadprom association, the main products in the structure of exports remain walnuts worth $64 million, frozen berries for $23 million, apples and pears for $8 million.

KYIV, July 23 - An analogue of the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) could be created on the basis of the state-run State Finance Institution for Innovations (SFII), adding the proposal could be submitted to the government for approval by autumn, Chairman of Ukroboronprom's supervisory board Mykhailo Zgurorsky said.

KYIV, July 23 - Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has discussed with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources Francis Fannon cooperation in the energy sector and the threat of the Nord Stream 2 project.

KYIV, July 23 – Ukraine's government has excluded state-run peat producer Ukrtorf, manufacturer of off-road special vehicles Elektronmash and Kyiv Radio Plant from the list of strategic state-owned assets.