KYIV, April 23 - Industrial production in Ukraine in March 2018 grew by 1% compared to March 2017, while in February this figure was 1.9%, in January 3.6%, the State Statistics Service has said.

KYIV, April 23 – S&P Global Ratings forecasts that growth in Ukraine is set to accelerate further to 3.1% in 2018, and through to 2021, the agency expects average real GDP growth of about 2.9%, S&P said in a report.

KYIV, April 24 – Ukraine prevented transactions that would have enabled undisclosed foreign entities acquire controlling stake in the country’s aircraft engine maker Motor Sich, the SBU security service reported Tuesday.

KYIV, April 24 – Nova Poshta (Kyiv), the leader of express delivery in Ukraine, in partnership with private co-investors is implementing a project on construction of a new logistic terminal of class A with gross area of 3,200 square meters in Chervonohrad (Lviv region).

KYIV, April 24 – Most members of the monetary policy committee of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) believe that it is unlikely that the refinancing rate of the central bank will be cut this year, according to the minutes of the April meeting of the committee posted on the NBU's website.

KYIV, April 24 - Hackers took down the website of the Ukrainian energy and coal ministry on Tuesday, posting a message in English demanding a ransom paid in Bitcoin to recover encrypted files, Reuters reported.

KYIV, April 24 - A Ukrainian crime gang used offshore firms in British tax havens to secretly invest millions of pounds in the UK, BBC reported citing BBC Panorama investigation.

KIEV, April 20 - China Harbour Engineering company Ltd. has won an open tender to implement the first stage of the project to reconstruct the marine approach canal and internal water approach canals to deep-water berths of Yuzhny maritime merchandise port (Odessa region), offering the service for UAH 1.065 billion with the expected price of UAH 1.197 billion.

KIEV, April 20 – Construction of the new Beskydsky two-track railway tunnel in Carpathian Mountains will be finished at the end of 2017, Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan said on the sidelines of the Ukrainian Infrastructure Forum in Kiev on Thursday.

KIEV, April 20 – Ukraine will use all legal mechanisms seeking invalidation of the international arbitration court's ruling ordering Ukraine to pay Tatneft $144 million in the Ukrtatnafta case, Ukrainian Justice Minister Pavlo Petrenko told Interfax-Ukraine.