KYIV, Sept 27 – More than half of Ukrainians do not approve of the lifting of the moratorium on agricultural land sales, and 64% believe that this issue should be resolved in a referendum, according to a study conducted by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS)on September 16-19, 2019.

KYIV, Sept 26 – The National Commission for Energy, Housing and Utilities Services Regulation (NCER) has said that the situation with rallies of workers of ferroalloy plants held near the building of the regulator has worsened and demands the reaction from law enforcement authorities.

KYIV, Sept 26 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) mulls provision of additional financing in the amount of EUR200 million for the development of renewable energy sources in Ukraine, according to information on the bank's website.

KYIV, Sept 27 – Power generation by all power plants of state-owned enterprise Energoatom in January-August 2019 increased by 0.8% (by 428.7 million kWh) compared to the same period last year, to 54.698 billion kWh.

KYIV, Sept 26 – Ukrainian law enforcement agencies discovered and suspended an illegal water pipeline operation that had supplied water Russian-occupied Crimea, the authorities reported Wednesday.

KYIV, Sept 26 - Touchstone Capital Group (the U.K.) is interested in a project to build an offshore combined solar and wind power plant in Ukraine, the press service of Ukraine's Energy and Coal Industry Ministry has reported after a meeting of profile specialists of the ministry with a delegation of the company.

KYIV, Sept 26 – Ukraine's Ministry of Finance has listed Gazprom's implementation of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project among main fiscal risks.

"The implementation of the Nord Stream 2 project will result in losses due to a decrease in exports of services by about 2.5-3% of GDP (only direct losses)," the ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.

KYIV, Sept 27 – The volume of money remittances to Ukraine from emigrants working in other countries exceeds $5 billion a quarter, Board Chairman of RwS Bank Vladyslav Kravets said.

NEW YORK, Sept 27 – Ukraine will seek to boost economic and trade ties with Turkey after a meeting between President Petro Poroshenko and his Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in New York.

OBUKHIV, Sept 26 – BASF, an international chemical producer, is to invest EUR 2 million in a new plant that will produce concrete additives in the town of Obukhiv, Kyiv region, which is to open next spring, Managing Director (CEO) at BASF Ukraine Andreas Lier said.