KYIV, Feb 21 – Avenston LLC, the industrial and engineering company, acting as general contractor in 2019 plans to implement projects to build solar power plant with a total capacity of up to 100 MW, and tripled the order portfolio next year.

KYIV, Feb 21 – The Energy and Coal Industry Ministry of Ukraine predicts that renewable energy facilities with a capacity of 1 GW will be launched in 2019, which is 25% more than in 2018, Director General of the Energy Markets Directorate of the ministry Olha Buslavets said at the conference devoted to the auction system of support to renewable energy in Ukraine held on Thursday.

KYIV, Feb 21 - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in the near future will provide funding for a number of large renewable energy facilities in Ukraine.

KYIV, Feb 22 – Retail trade turnover in Ukraine in comparable prices in January increased by 6.3% compared to January 2018, the State Statistics Service reported.

According to its data, in January 2019 retail trade turnover compared with December 2018 decreased by 23%.

KYIV, Feb 22 – Kyiv and Delhi are preparing expansion of defense cooperation, and the course of cooperation and plans to boost partnership will be discussed at the negotiations at the Aero India Show 2019 held in Bengaluru (India).

KYIV, Feb 22 – Ukraine and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are working on expanding defense cooperation, including Abu-Dhabi’s plans by buy Ukrainian precision weaponry, Ukroboronprom reported.

KYIV, Feb 22 – Ukraine in 2018 increased exports of goods to new markets and increased the number of companies authorized to export food of animal origin, according to a report of the State Service for Food Safety and Consumers' Protection.

KIEV, Feb. 23 – Reproductive medicine is one of the most popular directions in the development of inbound medical tourism, Inbound Medical Tourism Club in Ukraine inUkraine President Yulia Khomych said.

KIEV, Feb. 24 - Ukraine suspended all upfront payments for supplies of Russian natural gas following Russian gas giant Gazprom’s failure to deliver ordered and prepaid gas over the past two days, Naftogaz reported Tuesday.

Naftogaz ordered supplies of 114 million cubic meters of gas both, on February 22 and February 23, but the Russian company had only delivered 47 million cu m and 39 million cu m, respectively.

KIEV, Feb. 21 - Danone Ukraine, one of the largest dairy producers in Ukraine, has decided to reallocate the production facilities of its Galakton dairy plant in Kiev to enterprises in Kremenchuk (Kremez) and Kherson (Danone Dnipro) by May 2015.