KYIV, April 19 – PrivatBank's corporate governance reform and the transformation of its business model had a positive effect on the stability of the banking system, the office of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Ukraine has reported, with reference to IMF Resident Representative in Ukraine Goesta Ljungman.

NIKOPOL, April 22 – DTEK predicts that there would be difficulties with imports of coal from the Russian Federation to Ukraine along with the coal export restrictions approved by the Russian government on April 18, 2019, but the group does not foresee any serious problems, DTEK CEO Maksym Tymchenko told reporters in Nikopol last week.

At the same time, he said that the company made every effort to convert the units of its thermal power plants (TPPs) from anthracite to gas coal.

KYIV, April 22 – The introduction of new restrictions on import of products of Ukrainian textile industry would affect the volumes of export of these goods, operation of enterprises and occupancy of employees, as despite the fact that last year export of products of light industry fell by 26% compared with 2017, it totaled $73.6 million (6% of total Ukrainian export of products of light industry), the Ukrainian Association of enterprises of textile & leather industry (Ukrlegprom) has said.

KYIV, April 19 – Boryspil International Airport is waiting for the confirmation of the announced flight plans from Ireland's low cost airline Ryanair in May 2018, Airport Head Pavlo Riabikin said at the Ukrainian Infrastructure Forum 2018 in Kyiv on Thursday.

ODESA, April 19 - Ukraine Power Resources plans to build a wind power plant in Odesa region, Odesa Regional State Administration's press service has reported.

According to the report, the construction of wind turbines is to begin this autumn.

KYIV, April 19 – Ukraine in April is gradually boosting imports of natural gas. In particular, on April 19, the application for supply of gas via Slovakia was increased 1.6-fold, according to information from the Eustream gas transport operator.

KYIV, April 19 – Ukraine in January-February imported 1.145 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas for a total of $313.366 million, according to the State Statistics Service.

Thus, the average price of gas imported by the country in February 2018 was $261.1 per 1,000 cubic meters against $279.4 in January 2018.

KYIV, April 19 – The French company Alstom has arrived in Ukraine and is looking for a platform for opening joint or new production facilities for investments, First Deputy Prime Minister Stepan Kubiv said.

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.