KYIV, March 20 – The new Ukrainian SkyUp Airlines and Boeing Corporation have signed a contract for the amount of $624 million for production of five Boeing 737 MAX planes for the Ukrainian airline, the airline's press service has reported.

KYIV, March 20 – Ukrgazvydobuvannia will sell fuel (A-92, A-95 petrol, diesel fuel and LPG) under the Shebel trademark, Ukrgazvydobuvannia Commercial Director Serhiy Fedorenko said at the presentation on Monday.

KYIV, March 20 – Ukrainian MPs have proposed to exempt from taxation and paying imports duty for spare parts and car and truck bodies for assembly of electric vehicles (cars and trucks) and electric buses in Ukraine, exempt buyers of electric cars from paying pension tax and extractors of lithium, manufacturers of batteries and electric cars from paying profit tax.

KYIV, March 20 – President Petro Poroshenko and Chief Executive Officer of the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) Sheikh Abdulla bin Mohammed bin Saud Al Thani during the meeting agreed to expand cooperation between the two countries.

KYIV, March 21 – The national energy company Naftogaz Ukrayiny plans to enter the eurobond market in 2018 and expects that investors would positively react to this step, as the company sees profits, its investment and production grew and the company won the litigation with Gazprom, Naftogaz Ukrayiny CEO Andriy Kobolev said on Bloomberg TV Europe.

KYIV, March 21 – The Ukrainian rocket design bureau Pivdenne is prepared to respond to a recent Russian court ruling on upgrade of Russian nuclear missiles.

KYIV, March 20 - The consumer confidence of Ukrainians worsened in February 2018: The Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) equals 55.4, which is 4.2 points lower than the indicator in January 2018 and 0.8 lower than in February 2017. Almost all components of the index worsened, according to a study published by GfK Ukraine.

KIEV, March 20 – The attraction of a European company to the management of the Ukrainian gas transport system (GTS) would allow the country to retain the status of a large natural gas transit country, Naftogaz Ukrayiny Chairman Andriy Kobolev said.

KIEV, March 20 - The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will open its fourth representative office in Odessa in May, completing the formation of its representative offices in Ukraine, EBRD Director for Ukraine Sevki Acuner said.

KIEV, March 20 – All Ukrainian banks with Russian state capital in Ukraine are holding talks to sell the banks, the National Bank of Ukraine said.

"We know for sure that all banks with state Russian capital operating today in Ukraine are holding negotiations on the potential sale," Deputy NBU head Kateryna Rozhkova said on Inter TV Channel on Sunday.