KYIV, Nov 15 – The Board of Directors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) on Wednesday recommended that the bank's governors approve a paid-in capital increase of EUR4 billion in order to ensure a significant and stable volume of investment in Ukraine now and in the future.

KYIV, Nov 15 – Ukrainian enterprises in January-October of this year increased the export of ferrous metal scrap by 289% compared with the same period last year, to 146,927 tons.

KYIV, Nov 15 - Ukrenergo and General Electric signed a memorandum of cooperation providing for joint actions on the research and implementation of projects for the installation of STATCOM devices, construction and modernization of high-voltage substations, said chairman of the board of Ukrenergo Volodymyr Kudrytsky.

KYIV, Nov 16 – Ukrainian enterprises in January-October of this year increased consumption of rolled metal by 94.51% compared to the same period last year, to 2.904 million tons.

According to a press release from the Ukrmetallurgprom association, during this period 937,500 tons were imported, or 32.29% of the domestic market for rolled metal consumption.

KYIV, Nov 16 – Since the beginning of Russian aggression, Ukraine has been forced to change the geography of exports of agricultural products, as a result of which the share of Europe in January-October 2023 reached 59% compared to 32% in 2021, the Ukrainian Agribusiness Club (UCAB) reported on Facebook.

KYIV, Nov 15 – Fundraising platform of the President of Ukraine UNITED24 and mining and metallurgical group Metinvest have created the final series of bracelets "This is Azovstal. A Symbol of Perseverance" using the last pre-war batch of steel from the Mariupol steel plant.

KYIV, Nov 16 – The security protection zone around the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) in its narrower sense as nuclear safety is possible and realistic, but it is not yet possible to name specific dates for its creation, negotiations are ongoing, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi said.

KYIV, Nov 16 - Ostchem, the nitrogen business of Group DF, has begun supplying carbon dioxide to the European market by creating a separate company for the production of industrial gases named CO2, according to a press release.

KYIV, Nov 16 - ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih (Dnipropetrovsk region) at its coke chemical division in January-September of this year reduced production of metallurgical coke by 64.6% compared to the same period last year - to 786,000 tons.

KYIV, Nov 16 - The indicator of economic sentiment in Ukraine, calculated by the State Statistics Service, in the fourth quarter of 2021 increased to 98.7% from 98.5% in the third quarter, from 96.9% in the second and from 90.2% in the first quarter of this year.