KYIV, Feb 22 – Ukraine should focus on Turkish and Belarusian transit sea cargo flows to implement a cargo flow growth strategy, Head of the Ukrainian Sea Port Authority Raivis Veckagans said.

KYIV, Feb 22 – The leading Ukrainian mobile communications operator Kyivstar plans to buy two out of three additional lots at the 4G auction for the 1800 MHz frequencies spectrum, Kyivstar President Peter Chernyshov said.

KYIV, Feb 22 – A part of light roof of the turbine island of reactor No. 4 of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant has been dismantled for allowing firefighting systems to operate properly, the press service of the Chornobyl NPP state-owned specialized enterprise reported.

KYIV, Feb 22 - The share of non-performing loans (NPL) in the total volume of loans in Ukraine as of late December 2017 was 55.75% compared with 56.4% as of late September and 57.7% as of late June, according to a survey of the National Bank of Ukraine published Wednesday.

KIEV, Feb. 23 – Kiev's business court of appeals on Wednesday upheld the decision of the court of a lower instance to collect a fine of UAH 172 billion from Russia's Gazprom for abuse of monopoly.

KIEV, Feb. 21 - The consumer sentiment index in Ukraine in January 2017 decreased by 3.4 points compared with December 2016, to 53.7 (on a scale from 0 to 200), according to a monthly survey by GfK Ukraine.

KIEV, Feb. 22 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny by the end of this week will receive its first four letters of credit as part of a $500 million loan, Ukrainian Citibank Chairman Steven Fisher.

KIEV, Feb. 22 – Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers has instructed the Finance Ministry to buy indexed government domestic loan bonds worth UAH 9.8 billion, or US$363 million, to complete additional capitalization of Dnipro-based PrivatBank, which was nationalized late in 2016, the government announced on its website.

KIEV, Feb. 23 – One of the top vehicles of the state-run enterprise Spetstechnoexport (part of the state-run Ukroboronprom concern) is the Phantom unmanned tactical multipurpose vehicle. Phantom was among the top five inventions at IDEX 2017 – the International Defence Exhibition in the United Arab Emirates and its success shows the high level of interest in Ukrainian military equipment, according to President Petro Poroshenko.

KIEV, Feb. 22 - The continued lack of confidence in the political regime in Ukraine could trigger a new wave of capital outflow from the country and the weakening of the national currency exchange rate by the middle of this year, to UAH 30/$1, analysts of Goldman Sachs investment bank consider.