KYIV, Jan 21 – Ukrainian farmland needs to be cleared and demined as quickly as possible and returned to use, as farmers feed Ukraine and the world, Agrarian Policy and Food Minister of Ukraine Vitaliy Koval has said during a panel discussion on demining and green recovery in Davos on Tuesday.

KYIV, Jan 19 – The share of building materials in the assortment of the Epicenter network today is 8.3%, but during the period of large-scale recovery of the country after victory in the war, the figure could rise to 20%, Oleksandr Hereha, the co-founder of the Epicenter group of companies, said in an interview with Forbes Ukraine.

KYIV, Jan 19 – Poland will maintain the embargo on the import of Ukrainian grain until the European Commission develops effective mechanisms to protect the Polish market, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Stefan Krajewski said, according to polskieradio24.pl.

KYIV, Jan 19 – Operators of gas transmission systems of Ukraine, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and the Republic of Moldova during the high-level ministerial meeting of CESEC (The Central and South Eastern Europe Connectivity) in Athens signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the creation of the South- North (Vertical Corridor).

KYIV, Jan 19 – The State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) on Thursday conducted searches at the office of one of the largest investment companies in Ukraine, Concorde Capital, in Kyiv, a law enforcement source told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, Jan 19 - The Metinvest mining and metallurgical group, within the framework of Rinat Akhmetov's Steel Front initiative, began production and supply of steel headquarters-bunkers to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, saving them from enemy shelling.

KYIV, Jan 21 – Ukrainian businesses in 2020 increased the consumption of rolled steel by 4.4% compared with the previous year, to 4.904 million tons, according to the Ukrmetalurgprom association.

KYIV, Jan 20 – About a third of Ukrainian hotels in 2020 reduced their gross revenue by 40-60% compared to 2019, for another 30% of hotels the losses exceeded 60%, according to the results of a poll conducted by the Ukrainian Hotel & Resort Association (UHRA).

KYIV, Jan 20 – The Synevo laboratory, part of the Swedish holding Medicover, has launched PCR tests that detect British and South African coronavirus (COVID-19) strains, including their currently known mutations.

KYIV, Jan 21 - The State Agency of Automobile Roads of Ukraine (Ukravtodor) during tenders in the state electronic trading system ProZorro has reduced the expected cost of building a new bridge in Kremenchuk (Poltava region) by 11%, or UAH 1.27 billion.