KYIV, Dec 28 – The demand for buying houses in the suburbs of the capital will grow in the first half of 2023, Rudolf Arzumanyan, the developer of the Park House cottage town, gave such a forecast in a commentary to Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, Dec 28 – Members of the European Business Association (EBA) slightly worsened their assessment of the tax regime in Ukraine in wartime - to 2.97 points out of 5 possible compared with 3.01 points in 2021, according to the results of the new wave of the Tax Index survey.

KYIV, Dec 28 – Ukraine’s tolerance to corruption will decrease and demand for justice will increase after the country wins its war against Russia, Orest Stasiuk, adviser to the law firm Asters, said.

KYIV, Dec 29 – The Kamet Steel plant of the Metinvest mining and metallurgical group, created at the facilities of the Dnipro Metallurgical Plant (DMK, Kamianske, Dnipropetrovsk region), resumed steel production after the suspension of work at the end of November due to electricity restrictions due to shelling Russian occupiers of Ukraine's energy infrastructure.

KYIV, Dec 29 – Operations with commercial real estate and construction top the list of industries with the largest share of non-performing loans (NPL) – respectively 70.2% and 68%, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) said in the Financial Stability Report based on the analysis of the largest corporate borrowers as of December 1, which account for 60% of banks' net loan portfolio.

KYIV, Dec 29 – Dniprovsky Metallurgical Plant (DMZ, formerly Evraz-DMZ), which is part of DCH Steel of the DCH group of businessman Oleksandr Yaroslavsky, currently produces coke, rolling mills operate on orders from raw materials supplied by the as a metallurgical redistribution is still idle.

KYIV, Dec 29 - In 2022, Ukraine increased the total export of dairy products in terms of the equivalent amount of raw milk by 12% compared to 2021.

KYIV, Dec 29 - As of 2020, some 26,500 IT specialists work in Lviv, 80% of whom are technical specialists, according to the IT Research 5.0 industry study conducted by the Fama research agency at the request of Lviv IT Cluster.

KYIV, Dec 29 – Majority of Ukrainians, 51.8%, said their financial positions have worsened over the past year, while 36.3% said their positions have not changed much and 8% managed to improve, a poll by the Social Monitoring Center shows.

KYIV, Dec 28 – The Finance Ministry obtained the right to swap Treasury bills previously issued to replenish charter capitals of banks, for new T-bills with an adjustment of public debt ceiling, according to a Cabinet order.