KYIV, May 18 – Ukraine’s government has approved the National Action Plan for Environmental Protection until 2025 with the aim, in particular, to bring the share of renewable energy sources to 17% by 2030 and increase the environmental efficiency index by 5 points. Government resolution No. 443-r dated April 21, 2021 published on the government website on Tuesday.

KYIV, May 18 – Energy Minister Herman Haluschenko and Director of the Energy Community Secretariat Janez Kopac have agreed to cooperate in a bid to consistently implementing reforms and supporting decarbonization of the energy sector, the Energy Ministry and the Energy Community Secretariat reported on their websites on Tuesday.

KYIV, May 18 - The Ukrainian industrial company Interpipe expands its cooperation with the national German railway operator Deutsche Bahn.

The company said that in April 2021, the first batch of new design 840 mm ET 442 wheels has already been shipped and successfully inspected at the customer's site.

KYIV, May 19 – Ukraine should quickly privatize Centrenergo, one of the largest fossil fuel-burning power generating companies, in order to improve its efficiency, Energy and Environment Protection Minister Olha Buslavets said Tuesday.

KYIV, May 19 - Ukraine’s largest coal mining company DTEK Energy restarted 10 coal mines amid gradually increasing demand as the government has been easing lockdown measures, the company reported.

KYIV, May 19 – Billionaire Igor Kolomoiskiy, a key supporter of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, is under investigation by a US federal grand jury for allegedly laundering hundreds of millions of dollars in US real estate, BuzzFeed News reported Tuesday.

KYIV, May 18 – DTEK Oil & Gas LLC in May reached a record daily level of natural gas production both for the company and private companies in the amount of 5 million cubic meters (mcm), the company said in a press release.

KYIV, May 18 – The Ministry of Energy and Environmental Protection during negotiations with investors in renewable energy sources (RES) intends to reach agreements on the restructuring of the feed-in tariff without extension of the payout time, acting Energy and Environmental Protection Minister of Ukraine Olha Buslavets told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, May 18 – Ukraine should re-look at the development of nuclear power generation, including focusing on the implementation of projects that increase the ability to maneuver, acting Minister of Energy and Environmental Protection Olha Buslavets has said.

KYIV, May 18 – The consumer confidence of Ukrainians in April worsened by 6.8 points, to 66.2 points on a 200-point scale, and their assessment of their current situation by 18.4 points, to the level of 2017, or to 48.8, according to data from Info Sapiens research agency.