KIEV, Nov. 18 ??“ The state-owned Naftogaz Ukrayiny wants to expand state control on the oil market through the modernization and expansion or replacement of UkrTatNafta??™s Kremenchuk oil refinery's facilities.

KIEV, Nov. 18 ??“ Evidence provided by leading mobile communications operators Ukrainian Mobile Communications and Kyivstar GSM that there is no monopoly on the market has so far left the Antimonopoly Committee unconvinced.

KYIV, Oct 20 – The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the attraction of a $39 million loan from the World Bank for the construction of a new tram line from Starovokzalna Street to the Palats Sportu metro station with a stop at Vokzalna Square in Kyiv, the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine has reported on its website on Wednesday.

KYIV, Oct 20 - DTEK currently has 500 MW of solar and wind power plants at various stages of construction, Maxim Timchenko, the CEO of the company, said.

"Thus, we will gradually replace conventional coal energy with renewable one," he said during the Ukraine Gas Investment Congress in Kyiv.

KYIV, Oct 20 – On Wednesday, the state-owned Ukrgazvydobuvannia won an auction for the use of subsoil resources of the Pivdenno-Rusanivska oil and gas area (317.2 sq km, Sumy and Poltava regions) by offering UAH 304.61 million for it, according to the ProZorro.Sale platform.

KYIV, Oct 20 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny has signed memorandums of understanding with Dragon Oil (the UAE), SOCAR AQS (Azerbaijan), Helmerich & Payne, Inc. and 3 Seas Energy (both from the United States) with the aim of increasing gas and oil production in the country.

KYIV, Oct 20 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny sets itself the task of increasing natural gas production in the next 10 years by 80% from the current about 13 billion cubic meters (bcm) to 24 billion cubic meters, CEO Yuriy Vitrenko said during the Ukrainian Gas Investment Congress held in Kyiv.

KYIV, Oct 21 – Only 15% of banks correctly calculate the real annual interest rate for consumer loans, according to a study on consumer lending: high rates, low compliance sector conducted in April-July this year within the framework of the USAID Financial Sector Transformation project.

KYIV, Oct. 21 - Nikolai Kiselev, a Russia-born hockey player who won the Ukrainian Hockey League’s Best Sniper Award for the 2018-2019 season, signed a contract with Ukraine’s Kharkiv-based club Rulav Odd, the club reported Thursday.

KYIV, Oct 20 – Prices in the primary housing market in Ukraine in July-September grew by 7.7% compared to the same period in 2019, in the secondary market – by 10.6%, the State Statistics Service has reported.