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.

KIEV, May 24 - ENTSO-E (the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity) has agreed the final version of the agreement on the joining of Ukrainian and Moldovan energy systems to the continental network of Europe.

KIEV, May 25 - Metinvest Group's Avdiyivka coking and chemical plant, Europe's largest enterprise in its sector, has started to work at full capacity for the first time in three years of Donbas hostilities after new high voltage power lines have been built.

KIEV, May 25 - The Arbitration Institute of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce may issue a head-note ruling on the gas supply contract between Naftogaz Ukrayiny and Russia's Gazprom before the end of May, and then it can provide a detailed decision, Naftogaz Chief Commercial Officer Yuriy Vitrenko told reporters.

KIEV, May 25 – The National Bank of Ukraine has placed Kiev's Smartbank on its list of insolvent banks. This is linked to the non-transparent ownership structure of the bank, the central bank said on its website.