KYIV, Oct 24 – Ukraine climbed seven notches to claim the 64th place in the World Bank Doing Business 2020 rating, reflecting fast economic transformation, Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk said Thursday.

KYIV, Oct 24 – The Antimonopoly Committee has permitted Azerbaijan's Bakcell telecom operator to acquire shares in Preludium B.V. (the Netherlands) through which MTS Group owns the second largest mobile communications operator in Ukraine – PrJSC VF Ukraine (Vodafone Ukraine).

KYIV, Oct. 24 - The son of a film producer who helped President Volodymyr Zelenskiy become a household name as an actor has been appointed the Ukrainian government’s chief economic adviser, Reuters reported on Thursday citing a senior government official.

KIEV, Oct. 21 - Metinvest international vertically integrated mining and steel group has postponed the deadline for closing the deal on restructuring the eurobonds of Metinvest B.V. parent company (the Netherlands) from November 30 until December 31.

KIEV, Oct. 21 - Ukraine's largest bank PrivatBank (Dnipro) has denied information about the plans for its nationalization.

"This information [about the upcoming nationalization of PrivatBank] is another fake," the bank said.

KIEV, Oct. 21 – The investment climate in Ukraine recently improved, according to the National Association of Banks of Ukraine.

According to the report, the positive signal is plans of one of the largest transnational banks – Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) – to restore operation of its representative office in Ukraine.

KIEV, Oct. 24 – Officials in the supervisory board of public joint-stock company Ukrzaliznytsia are to be removed and the board should only consist of independent specialists, Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroysman said.

KIEV, Oct. 24 – Ukraine will build its own centralized spent nuclear fuel storage facility and from 2017 the country would not remove spent nuclear fuel for temporary storage to Russia, Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Ihor Nasalyk said.

KIEV, Oct. 24 - Zaporizhia nuclear power plant, Ukraine’s largest, unexpectedly shut down its 1,000-MW reactor No. 2 after discovering a leak in a pipeline of independent contour of the main circulation pump, Energoatom reported Monday.

KIEV, Oct. 23 – MTS Ukraine starting on November 1 is to reduce the cost of incoming and outgoing calls to phones with MTS Ukraine SIM cards by 58.3%, to UAH 12.50 per minute in nine countries visited by tourists, reads a report of the operator in the Uriadovy Kurier newspaper.