KYIV, July 19 - Following the results of the large-scale repair campaign, Ukraine plans to return 1.7 GW of damaged capacities to the energy system by the beginning of the autumn-winter period, the press service of the Ministry of Energy reported on Wednesday.

KYIV, July 19 – NPC Ukrenergo, the Ministry of Energy and the Ministry of Finance have signed two agreements with the World Bank to provide the company with grant assistance in the amount of $240 million to improve the power system reliability, Volodymyr Kudrytsky, Board Chairman of Ukrenergo, said.

KYIV, July 19 – The Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) of Ukrainians fell by 9.5 points in June to 82.5 on a 200-point scale, which corresponds to its figure in September last year, according to a study by the Info Sapiens agency.

KYIV, July 19 – Kernel reported damage to 40% of grain storage and transshipment facilities in Chornomorsk port because of a missile attack by Russia on the night of July 19, it will take at least 12 months to restore these assets, its press release said.

KYIV, July 19 - The Norwegian company Emergy (formerly NBT) plans to close a deal to raise financing for the first two phases of Zophia Wind Farm (Zaporizhia region) with an installed capacity of 337 MW by the end of July, Emergy Vice President Magnus Johansen has told reporters in Kyiv.

KYIV, July 19 – The Ukrainian steel sector is currently facing three big challenges: environmental modernization, product access to export markets and problems within the country – the provision of raw materials, in particular, scrap metal, as well as tariffs of monopolies and the need to increase domestic consumption of metal.

KYIV, July 19 - The capitalization of agricultural land will grow by at least 7-10% per year and in ten years will amount to hundreds of billions of dollars, Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Roman Leschenko has said during a discussion meeting in Kyiv region.

KYIV, July 19 - The Ministry of Economy has estimated the growth of Ukraine's GDP in April-June 2021 at 6%, for January-May - at 0.7%, according to the ministry's website.

"The growth in the second quarter of 2021 will be about 6%," the ministry said.

KYIV, July 20 - Since the launch of the land market on July 1 and as of the morning of July 19, some 1,107 land transactions have been carried out in Ukraine for agricultural plots with a total area of 1,530 hectares, the leaders in terms of the number of contracts concluded are Poltava and Kharkiv regions, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food said on its website.

BAKU, July 20 - SOCAR, State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic, plans to send a new batch of Azerbaijani oil to Belarus at the end of July.

"We are planning to send a batch of oil to Belarus from the Georgian port of Supsa on July 30-31," Deputy Head of the public relations and events department at SOCAR Ibrahim Ahmadov said.

He said that the volume of this batch will be about 650,000 barrels.