KYIV, April 20 – Ukrainian railway car building enterprises received orders to produce over 1,000 cars in Q1 2018 from private companies operating on the cargo transportation market.

KYIV, April 20 – The Ukrainian heavy truck maker AvtoKrAZ is working out plans to expand its presence on the Southeast Asian defense market.

KYIV, April 20 – The Individuals' Deposit Guarantee Fund plans to conduct international investigations into bankruptcy of Delta Bank and bank Nadra, Deputy Managing Director of the fund Andriy Olenchyk said.

KYIV, April 20 – The growth of real GDP of Ukraine in the first quarter of 2018 was 2.3% on year, according to the assessments of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU).

KIEV, April 19 – Ukraine's Finance Ministry will organize a tender to select an internationally recognized consulting company as an advisor to draw up the updated principles of strategic reformation of the public banking sector. The Ukrainian government made the decision on Wednesday.

KIEV, April 20 - Russia's Bank Vozrozhdenie on March 28, 2017 filed a bankruptcy petition to Arbitrage Court of the City of Moscow against JSC Ostankino Dairy (Moscow), part of Milkiland Group with assets in Ukraine, Russia and Poland.

KIEV, April 21 – The British-made Saxon armored personnel carriers (APCs), and the U.S.-made Humvee armored vehicles which will be used to strengthen the combat readiness of the Ukrainian Armed Forces will be retrofitted with tank weapons, Ukroboronprom State Concern announced.

KIEV, April 21 – The Egyptian government said it doubts that the restriction on imports of kitchenware and tableware made from porcelain in Egypt imposed by Ukraine in 2014 is justifiable, and the country has sent questions to Ukraine via the World Trade Organization's Committee on Safeguards.

KIEV, April 21 – The European Commission has disbursed a loan of EUR 250 million to Ukraine, which is the last disbursement under the first macro-financial assistance for Ukraine, which totals EUR 610 million and was approved in 2014.

KIEV, April 22 – Ukraine's Energy and Coal Industry Ministry doesn't see any positive prospects for 11 out of 35 state-run coalmines, which are located in government-controlled territory, but only three of them are to be closed in the near future, according to Minister Volodymyr Demchyshyn.