KYIV, March 21 – The Consumer Confidence Index of Ukrainians in February fell by 6.5 points from the January level and amounted to 70.2 points (on a scale from zero to 200), the last time a lower figure was recorded in February 2022 (64.1 points), says a study by the Info Sapiens agency.

KYIV, March 21 – A field hospital provided to Ukraine jointly by Estonia, Norway and the Netherlands as part of the third aid package has arrived in Ukraine, according to the Estonian Defense Investment Centre (ECDI).

KYIV, March 21 – President of Energoatom Petro Kotin and Head of Customer Engagement of British-based Rolls-Royce SMR Sophie Mcfarlane-Smith on March 20 signed a memorandum of understanding, which provides for the construction of a power plant with a small modular reactor (SMR) in Ukraine.

KYIV, March 21 – Ukraine has stocks of basic agricultural crops for several years, so the blocking of Ukrainian seaports by the troops of the aggressor country of the Russian Federation threatens, first of all, not its food security, but the security of countries importing Ukrainian agricultural products.

KYIV, March 21 - Ukraine will continue to service the public debt, despite the war, Yuriy Butsa, the commissioner for public debt management, said and called on businesses to break economic ties with Russia.

KYIV, March 22 – The fighting of the Russian army provoked a fire at the production plant Plast-box Ukraine LLC (Chernihiv), owned by Plast-Box S.A., the Polish company for the processing of artificial materials.

KYIV, March 22 – A warehouse belonging to the Farmak joint-stock company, a major drug manufacturer based in Kyiv, has burned down near Makariv (Kyiv region).

Farmak board member Petro Chernyshov announced this on Facebook, the Ukrainian News Agency reports.

KYIV, March 22 – The Ukrainian state defense concern Ukroboronprom has written to the Asset Recovery and Management Agency of Ukraine (ARMA), stating its readiness to take control of the assets of the Motor Sich enterprise in order to retain its potential, Ukroboronprom's Director General Yuriy Husev said on Saturday.

KYIV, March 19 - The new Ukrainian airline Bees Airline plans to launch its first regular flight by the end of April 2021, director general of the company Yevhen Khainatsky has said.

KYIV, March 20 – Interpipe, the international vertically integrated pipe and wheel company, increased steel production by 4.8% in January-February of 2020 compared to the same period in 2019, to 138,200 tons.