KIEV, March 19 ??“ Intesa SanPaolo??™s $1.3 billion purchase of one of Ukraine's biggest banks is at risk amid regulatory delays and a possible need to renegotiate the terms of the deal, the Financial Times reported Monday.

ESPOO, March 17 ??“ Nokia, the world??™s largest producer of cell phones, has won a tender to supply mobile communications equipment to Ukrainian operator Astelit Ltd. which is majority owned by Turkey's Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri AS.

KIEV, March 17 ??“ PromBudSklo Ltd., a major Ukrainian glass producer, signed an agreement with Ianua Engineering, a branch of Italy's Ianua S.p.A., to build a float-glass factory, Interfax-Ukraine reported Thursday citing an industry source.

KIEV, March 17 ??“ A Ukrainian coal mine plans to start a project of methane gas extraction by the end of the year to sell unused assigned emission rights and to boost gas output.

KYIV, Feb 19 - The current condition of agricultural crops is normal, we hope there will be no need to replant winter crops, said Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Vitaliy Koval in an interview with the Interfax-Ukraine agency.

KYIV, Feb 19 - The first nuclear reactors that Ukraine will decommission will be the VVER 440 reactors of Rivne NPP, Energy Minister Herman Haluschenko said.

KYIV, Feb 19 - The German defense tech company opened an office in Ukraine and plans to transfer part of the production processes and development to the Ukrainian office, said Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation for IT Development Oleksandr Borniakov.

KYIV, Feb 19 – Work to prepare for the completion of power unit No. 3 of the Khmelnytsky Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) is almost completed, acting head of the board of Energoatom Petro Kotin said.

KYIV, Feb 17 – The oilseed crushing industry in the frontline regions of Ukraine has been significantly affected due to Russian military aggression: part of the oil extraction plants was destroyed by Russian troops, part is located in the temporarily occupied territories, and the remaining enterprises are closed or operate in a limited mode.

KYIV, Feb 19 - PrivatBank, Ukraine’s largest bank, cut basic interest rates for all programs for lending to entrepreneurs and small businesses by 2-3 percentage points (p.p.) beginning from February 14, the bank reported.