KYIV, May 23 – Ukraine has a 50% chance of getting a deal with the International Monetary Fund over further lending and that is holding many investors back, Concorde Capital chief Ihor Mazepa said.

KYIV, May 24 – Ukraine’s largest steelmaker ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih has agreed to increase wages paid to its workers by more than a third to avert a potential strike at the company.

KYIV, May 24 - Industrial production in Ukraine increased by 3% in April compared with April 2017, while the figure in March year-over-year was 1%, it was 1.9% in February, the State Statistics Service said on Wednesday.

KIEV, May 23 – Ukraine bought nuclear fuel worth $121.458 million in January-March 2017.

Over the period under review, Ukrainian nuclear power plants bought fuel worth $63.831 million from Russia and worth $57.627 million from Sweden, the State Statistics Service has reported.

LVIV, May 23 - The French firm Egis has proposed building an incineration plant for Lviv at the site of combined heat and power plant No. 2 (CHPP-2), the manager of the project for the development of a waste treatment strategy for Lviv, Christopher Round, said.

KIEV, May 23 – Efforts are underway in the occupied areas of Donetsk region to restart the enterprises belonging to Metinvest Group and Donetsksteel, which lost control over them on March 15, 2017.

KIEV, May 23 – Ukraine plans to build up military and technical cooperation with the countries of Southeast Asia and is negotiating expanding partnership in the defense industry with the Philippines.

KIEV, May 23 – Seven Cypriot investment companies, including Akemi Management Ltd, Aldoza Investments Ltd, Erosaria Ltd, Opalcore Ltd, Foxtron Networks Ltd, Loricom Holding Group Ltd, Wonderbliss Ltd, which invested their own funds in Ukraine's government domestic loan bonds, consider the court decision on the application of special confiscation to their property to be illegal.

KIEV, May 23 – The consumer sentiment index in Ukraine 2017 decreased by 0.6 points in April compared to the previous month, to 54.9 (on a scale of 0 to 200), according to a monthly survey by GfK Ukraine.

KIEV, May 23 - Industrial production in Ukraine decreased by 6.1% in April compared to the same month in 2016, while in March this year it fell by 2.7%, the State Statistics Service said.