KYIV, Feb 20 – Zaporizhia Automobile Plant (ZAZ), part of the UkrAVTO Corporation, has started producing a pilot batch of LS Mtron tractors to study the process of production and demand, company spokesman Dmytro Skliarenko said.

KYIV, Feb 21 – The Regional Development, Construction, Housing and Utilities Economy Ministry of Ukraine has amended the national construction standards permitting placing parking areas on trafficable roofs of shopping and entertainment centers and other buildings intended for public use.

KYIV, Feb 21 – Ukrainian companies would have to increase expenses on IT due to the necessity of not only competing for staff with western companies, but also doing this in line with changing taxation rules, Vladyslav Chechotkin, the founder and co-owner of the largest online shop in Ukraine – Rozetka.ua, said.

KYIV, Feb 21 – The National Bank of Ukraine will seek to extend sanctions against five Ukrainian banks that have Russian government capital, Vitaliy Vavryschuk, director of the financial stability department at NBU, said Wednesday.

VIENNA, Feb. 21 - Vienna’s Higher Regional Court on Tuesday overturned a 2015 lower-court ruling that had blocked the extradition of Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash, resulting in his arrest shortly afterward on a European warrant.

KIEV, Feb. 20 - The Avdiyivka Coke Plant (AKHZ, Donetsk region), Europe's largest coke producer, part of Metinvest Group, has been reconnected to electricity through a power transmission line input, the company's general director Musa Magomedov said on Monday.

KIEV, Feb. 21 - Yenakiyeve Steel Plant (Donetsk region) and PJSC Krasnodonvuhillia (Luhansk region), part of Metinvest Group, located in the temporarily uncontrolled territory of Ukraine, have stopped production due to continuing military operations and rail traffic blockade in the “ATO zone."

KIEV, Feb. 21 – Enterprises incorporated into state-run Ukroboronprom Concern have not been selling their products to Russia since the middle of 2014, the Concern said in a statement.

KIEV, Feb. 20 – As of February 20, Ukraine is eligible to export poultry and eggs onto the European Union's market due to the effect of relevant regulations of the European Commission.

KIEV, Feb. 20 – French company Novarka has resumed work on the installation of an arch for the new safe confinement over the Generating Unit No. 4 of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.