KIEV, April 24 – Privat Group, the former owner of which is businessman Ihor Kolomoisky, in a report on profit and losses and other revenue for 2016 admitted spending on reserves for depreciation of credits and advance payments to clients in the amount of UAH 144.713 billion, according to a draft audit report of Ernst & Young (E&Y) posted by creative producer of the journalist investigations department of 1+1 TV channel and Groshi television program Oleksandr Dubynsky on his Facebook page.

KIEV, April 24 – SCM Group owner Rinat Akhmetov remained the richest Ukrainian in 2016 according to Focus magazine, with fortune of $2.2 billion.

KIEV, April 25 – Ukraine's Ihor Kolomoisky is among four prominent businessmen facing a $380 million worldwide freezing order that ties up property including his luxury French villa, months after he settled a multi-billion-pound claim in an unrelated case in British courts.

KIEV, April 25 – Ukraine's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Volodymyr Yelchenko on behalf of Ukraine signed the Paris Agreement on Climate Change at the UN Headquarters in New York on Friday.

KIEV, April 23 – The Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry says it considers it appropriate to limit the use of artificial sweeteners in food production.

KIEV, April 25 – One of the largest media companies in Ukraine, UMH Group, the majority shareholder of which is Borys Lozhkin, has executed an option to buy 50% of the shares of lawmaker Petro Poroshenko in joint projects Nashe Radio and KP Media.

KIEV, April 25 - More than a third of Ukrainian citizens believe that it is easier to resolve problems with the help of bribes, according to a survey conducted at the request of the Democratic Initiatives Foundation and Kiev International Institute of Sociology from March 3 to March 13.

KIEV, April 25 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has arranged a financial package of EUR 5.4 million for Kiev-based Rengó Development to build a five-megawatt solar power plant in Vinnytsia region operated by Rengó Tomashpol.

KIEV, April 25 - Ukraine will not be making any massive purchases of Russian natural gas during the next several months, Yevhen Bakulin, the head of the national energy company Naftogaz Ukrayiny, said Thursday.

LONDON, April 23 – Ukrainian metallurgy is the most dependent on exports in the world, however, vertical integration, increasing the share of high value-added production and increasing energy efficiency could improve the prospects for its development, senior metallurgy policy adviser at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Christopher Beauman said.