KYIV, Jan 23 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the European Union (EU) have agreed a new EUR 50 million program of financial guarantees aimed at scaling up investment in renewable energy in Ukraine and in the EU's Southern Neighborhood with a particular focus on Jordan, Lebanon and Tunisia, the bank has said in a press release.

KYIV, Jan 23 – Ukraine has placed EUR 1.25 billion eurobonds at 4.375% per annum, the Finance Ministry of Ukraine reported late on Wednesday.

DAVOS, Jan 23 – Ukrainian authorities want to pass state-ownws railway company Ukrzaliznytsia into management by Deutsche Bahn AG (DB), Germany's operator of railways, for 10 years, Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk said.

KYIV, Jan 23 – The TAS Group, the founder and majority shareholder of which is Serhiy Tigipko, plans to expand the TAS pharmacy chain to 400-500 pharmacies by 2021, TAS Pharma LLC reported.

KYIV, Jan 23 – Ukraine's Economic Development and Trade Ministry preliminarily predicts an annual growth of Ukrainian exports to Israel after the entry of the free trade area (FTA) agreement into force by $63.5 million or 10% of the export volume in 2017, Spokesperson of the ministry Roksolana Pidlasa said.

DAVOS, Jan 24 – Norway's NBT has enough potential to build an additional 700-800 MW of wind power capacities in Ukraine, the Office of the National Investment Council of Ukraine has reported, referring to NBT CEO Joar Viken speaking at a meeting of the National Investment Council of Ukraine in Davos (Switzerland) on Wednesday.

KYIV, Jan 24 - An agreement was signed between the Norwegian company NBT, the French company Total-Eren and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) regarding the Syvash Project with participation of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and President of the EBRD Suma Chakrabarti on January 23, 2019.

DAVOS, Jan 24 — Ukraine will be able to live through winter without any problems with the available natural gas reserves, which have decreased by 5 billion cubic meters of gas to 12.2 billion cubic meters since the start of the heating season, Andriy Kobolev, CEO of the national JSC Naftogaz of Ukraine, has said.

KYIV, Jan 24 – Industrial production in Ukraine in 2018 increased by 1.1% compared with 2017, while in December 2018 from December 2017 the decline was 3.5%, the State Statistics Service has reported.

KYIV, Jan 24 – President Petro Poroshenko said Thursday that 238 new manufacturing companies were established in Ukraine since 2014 as his government had opened up the economy to foreign investors.