KYIV, April 15 – More than 80% of Ukrainian window factories have resumed production, Oleksiy Bubnov, the Executive Director of the Association of Window and Facade Market Participants, told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, April 16 – Kyiv ranked 34th in the StartupBlink service rating compiled from more than 1,000 startup cities in the world, having risen from the 63rd place in two years, the UNIT.City Innovation Park, which is a partner of StartupBlink in Ukraine, has said.

KYIV, April 16 – The International Court of Arbitration (Geneva) has ordered to pay $44.4 million by the Russian Federation in favor of public joint-stock company Ukrnafta as compensation for the seizure of the company's assets in annexed Crimea.

KYIV, April 16 – The power system of Ukraine, without limiting the output of nuclear power plants or renewable energy sources and without introducing new regulatory capacities, can accept 3 GW of solar power plants and 1.75 GW of wind power stations.

KYIV, April 16 – Prime Minister of Slovakia Peter Pellegrini has stated that Slovak companies are interested in participating in the work of the future consortium for managing the Ukrainian gas transportation system (GTS) and plan to participate in the reconstruction of the GTS.

KYIV, April 16 – Russia's Gazprom in the past week sharply increased volumes of natural gas transportation to Europe using the Ukrainian pipelines – by 60 million cubic meters a day or 25%, reaching around 300 million cubic meters a day, Naftogaz Ukrayiny CEO Andriy Kobolev said.

KYIV, April 17 – Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman initiates the dismissal of Board Chairman of Naftogaz Ukrayiny Andriy Kobolev if the company refuses to cut the price of gas sold to households before April 24, Groysman said at a government meeting on Wednesday.

KYIV, April 16 – Two Chinese companies have won a tender of public joint-stock company Ukrgazvydbuvannia to attract external contractors to drill seven wells at three fields announced in March. The Ukrainian company saved 10.7% on the cost of drilling services: the cost fell from the expected UAH 1.988 billion to UAH 1.776 billion (VAT included).

KYIV, April 16 - Croatia sees Ukraine in a group of countries for which the LNG terminal on the Croatian coast can contribute to the diversification of gas supply, the press service of Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze has reported, following the first meeting of the joint Ukrainian-Croatian commission on economic cooperation in Zagreb on Monday.

KYIV, April 16 - The Ukrainian natural gas transit route is strategic for the EU's energy security, and Germany's involvement in finding a solution that would safeguard its commercial viability is much appreciated and needed, European Commission Vice President for Energy Union Maros Sefcovic has said.