KYIV, Sept 20 – The United Nations is working to purchase more large-scale energy equipment for Ukraine. Through the UNDP, over 6 million Ukrainians have gained stable access to electricity, said Shoko Noda, Assistant Secretary-General of the UN and Director of the UNDP Crisis Bureau.

KYIV, Sept 20 – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) believes that raising the bank profit tax from 25% to 50% in 2024 is unlikely to be effective and suggests the government consider raising broader taxes such as value-added tax (VAT), excise taxes, or environmental taxes, as outlined in the National Revenue Strategy (NRS).

KYIV, Sept 21 – As a result of a Russian missile attack on September 21, the PepsiCo plant in the town of Vishneve, Kyiv region, was damaged. Due to a fire that started after a missile strike, a dairy warehouse and part of the production premises were partially destroyed, the Kyiv-Info Telegram channel said.

KYIV, Sept 22 - According to the results of the first half of the year, the insurance market of Ukraine lost almost a third of its business, or 28% in premiums and 32% in insurance payments throughout the market, Yulia Khrystoliubska, the deputy head of the department for supervision of insurance companies of the National Bank of Ukraine, said at a meeting with insurance market participants on Thursday.

KYIV, Sept 22 – The European Network of Transmission System Operators (ENTSO-E) has increased the capacity for electricity export between Ukraine and Europe by 50 MW at night since September 23, NPC Ukrenergo reported on Wednesday.

KYIV, Sept 22 – The International Finance Corporation (IFC) from the World Bank Group will enter the capital of a new fund managed by Horizon Capital – Horizon Capital Growth Fund IV (HCGF IV) with an equity commitment of $30 million, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) with an equity commitment of $50 million.

KYIV, Sept 22 – President Volodymyr Zelensky met with business representatives and potential investors (American Jewish Committee) in New York, the presidential press service reported.

KYIV, Sept 22 – The vast majority, namely 83% of members of the European Business Association (EBA), forecast growth of their business in 2022, up from 60% a year ago, according to Business Forecast 2022 conducted by the European Business Association together with Nestlé Ukraine.

KYIV, Sept 22 – CWP Europe of the international energy infrastructure development company CWP Global, operating in Australia and Europe, enters the Ukrainian market for the first time with the acquisition of a 73 MW onshore wind turbine in Kherson region, the representative office of CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang (Germany) in Kyiv said on its website.

KYIV, Sept 22 – Some 90% of business representatives give an upbeat forecast on their companies' financial health at the end of 2021: 62% will achieve planned financial results, 28% will achieve more than was planned, according to a survey of the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine conducted jointly with Citi Ukraine.