KYIV, July 18 - In conditions of electricity shortages, FDI McDonald's Ukraine Ltd., which is developing the McDonald's fast food restaurant chain in Ukraine, has already equipped more than 70% of restaurants with generators, and also updated production processes, the company's operating director Dmytro Korbut commented on the situation to the Interfax-Ukraine agency.

KYIV, July 18 - Fitch Ratings has affirmed Metinvest B.V.'s Long-Term Foreign and Local Currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDR) and senior unsecured rating at 'CCC', the agency said on its website.

KYIV, July 20 - Metinvest Mining and Metallurgical Group has a negative attitude to the decision of the Hungarian government structures to deny it access to the sale of the country's largest steel producer Dunaferr (formerly ISD Dunaferr), which was part of Industrial Union of Donbas (ISD), due to which Hungary lost millions of dollars.

KYIV, July 20 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has decided to withdraw Sense Bank (formerly Alfa-Bank) from the market and turned to the government with a proposal to nationalize it, NBU Governor Andriy Pyshnyy said.

KYIV, July 20 – Ireland's Ryanair, Europe's largest low cost airline, announced its commitment to resume flights to/from Ukraine at low fares within 8 weeks after the opening of Ukrainian airspace and plans to deploy up to 30 new Boeing 737 MAX costing more than $3 billion in Kyiv, Lviv and Odesa.

KYIV, July 20 – Some 30% of the land bank of Nibulon (Mykolaiv), one of the largest operators of the Ukrainian grain market, has been mined, Mykhailo Rizak, the director for government relations and sustainable development of the land trader, said.

KYIV, July 20 – A group of Ukraine's creditors consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the UK and the US strongly recommend that holders of Ukraine's eurobonds accept its offer to defer payments and redemption for two years, as well as revise the terms of GDP warrants.

KYIV, July 20 – The LandInvest online platform, which previously provided services for checking land plots through the State Land Cadastre, is preparing to launch a service to support turnkey land purchase and sale transactions, a representative of the company, Denys Pysarev, told Interfax-Ukraine during a discussion meeting in Kyiv region.

KYIV, July 21 – Due to the intensification of inbound tourism, the occupancy rate of hotels in Kyiv in June 2021 increased to 66%, which is 23% higher than in May, Head of the Hotel Matrix project Yelyzaveta Rudeleva has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, July 21 – Supply of farmland plots for sale on market may double in September compared with July, Oleksandr Korobko, a business development partner of the consulting company Uvekon, said on Wednesday.