KYIV, Jan 23 – The State Automobile Roads Agency of Ukraine, also known as Ukravtodor, initiates the switch to tougher European standards for dimensions and weight for traffic – Council Directive 96/53/EC of July 25, 1996.

KYIV, Jan 23 – Foreign trade flow of agricultural products and food in 2018 totaled $24.3 billion, including over $18.84 billion of exported goods, and it grew by 5% compared with 2017, Ukraine's Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry has reported.

KYIV, Jan 23 – The national power grid Ukrenergo has started testing power units of thermal power plants (TPPs), combined heat and power plants (CHPPs) and hydroelectric power plants (HPPs) to regulate frequency and excitation to study the possibilities of synchronous operation of the power grids of Ukraine and Moldova.

KYIV, Jan 23 – Large ferroalloy enterprises of Ukraine – Nikopol and Zaporizhia Ferroalloy plants – in 2018 increased production by 0.8% compared with 2017, to 1.035 million tons.

The Ukrainian Association of Ferroalloy Manufacturers told Interfax-Ukraine that over the period silicon-manganese production grew by 6%, to 859,640 tons, while ferromanganese output fell by 30.6%, to 79,480 tons.

KYIV, Jan 22 – National energy company Naftogaz Ukrayiny believes the extension of the gas transit contract with Russia's Gazprom on the current conditions is not advisable, it does not have any guarantees for the volumes of gas transit, Naftogaz Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) Yuriy Vitrenko said.

KYIV, Jan 19 – Ukrnafta in 2017 reduced oil and gas condensate production by 9.2% (by 139,000 tons) compared to 2016, to 1.379 million tons, the company's press service said.

KYIV, Jan 22 - The appointment of a new governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) may strengthen Ukraine's positions in talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), investment experts have said.

KYIV, Jan 22 – One of the important priorities of reforms in Ukraine should be attraction of foreign direct investment (FDI), as their amount is not enough for provision of potential economic growth of GDP of 6-7% a year, Head of the Group of Strategic Advisors for Support of Reforms in Ukraine Ivan Miklos has said.

KYIV, Jan 22 - Moody's Investors Service has assigned a definitive Aa2 rating on the approximately $250 million of senior secured notes to be issued for financing of a loan issued to the national nuclear power generating company Energoatom for construction of the central spent nuclear fuel storage facility, the press service of Moody's has reported.

KYIV, Jan 22 - The construction of the Cyclone-4M launch vehicle as part of a commercial project of the space sector companies of Canada, the United States and Ukraine in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia could begin in May, CEO of Canada's Maritime Launch Services (MLS) Steve Matier said.