KYIV, Jan 17 – The Nordic Environment Finance Corporation (NEFCO) will provide Ukrainian municipalities with loan financing of EUR 12 million to modernize water supply facilities, increase their energy efficiency and for wastewater treatment.

KYIV, Jan 17 – The law with amendments to the Tax Code regarding improvement of tax administration, removal of technical and logical ambiguities in tax legislation (bill No. 1210) sets the rules for the e-cigarette market and would have a positive impact on the market, Manager for Regulatory Issues at JTI Ukraine Yulia Yuschenko has said.

KYIV, Jan 17 – The rate of Ukraine's value recovery instruments (VRIs) issued during the restructuring of the country's foreign debt in 2015 first passed the mark of 100% on Friday and was around 100.3% of the nominal value, bankers said.

KYIV, Jan 17 – Ukrainian businesses forecast inflation in 12 months at 7%, which is 0.1 percentage point (p.p.) worse than expected a quarter earlier.

KYIV, Jan 18 – Gas contracts between Naftogaz Ukrayiny and Russia's Gazprom signed in January 2009 were extremely unprofitable for Ukraine and caused irrevocable loss of $32 billion, Naftogaz Ukrayiny CEO Andriy Kobolev said.

KYIV, Jan 18 – Ukrainian coking plants imported 11.98 million tons of coking coal and coal concentrate for coking in 2018, which is 11% more than in 2017, taking into account enterprises located on the government uncontrolled areas and 14% more, not taking into account them.

KYIV, Jan 18 – Russia at the trilateral gas talks on gas imports and transit across Ukraine will play for time until the presidential and parliamentary elections in Ukraine are completed and due to the fact that there will not be new contracts Russia could halt gas transit early 2020, Naftogaz Ukrainy CEO Andriy Kobolev said.

KYIV, Jan 17 - Nibulon (Mykolaiv), one of the largest grain traders in Ukraine, intends to export 6 million tons of agricultural products in the 2018/2019 marketing year (MY, July-June).

KYIV, Jan 17 – Ukrainian agricultural exports to the EU country in January-November 2018 grew by 6.9% year-over-year, to $5.6 billion.

KYIV, Jan 17 - Ukrainian businesses predict further economic growth and the creation of new jobs in 2019 for the second year in a row, according to a survey of company heads conducted by the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) in the fourth quarter of 2018.