KYIV, Sept 15 – Prices for natural gas in Europe will quickly drop after the establishment of a point of sale of gas to European companies on the Ukraine-Russia border by Gazprom, CEO of Naftogaz Ukrainy Yuriy Vitrenko has said.

KYIV, Sept 16 –Ukrenergo power grid accepted emergency assistance from the power system of Slovakia on Tuesday to ensure safety and avoid shutting down of consumers of the Burshtyn TPP energy island after an accident at its power unit No. 1.

KYIV, Sept 16 – The Cabinet of Ministers has removed five regional power suppliers from the list of large-scale privatization facilities: Ternopiloblenergo, Zaporizhiaoblenergo, Kharkivoblenergo, Mykolaivoblenergo and Khmelnytskoblenergo.

KYIV, Sept 15 – Over 2021, the private laboratory market will exceed EUR 1 billion, Commercial Director of Synevo Mykola Skavronsky has said.

"According to our rough estimates, if in 2019 the private laboratory market in Ukraine was somewhere around EUR 200-250 million, then this year we will cross the figure in EUR 1 billion. The market has now doubled in recent years, that is, it goes exponentially," he told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, Sept 15 – Groups of companies of the Ukrainian agro-industrial complex, which shares are listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE), are undervalued relative to global agricultural holdings, mainly due to the good ratio of EBITDA and debt obligations and the ratio of EBITDA and the value of companies from Ukraine.

KYIV, Sept 14 – President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed law No. 825-IX on the ratification of a memorandum and a loan agreement between Ukraine and the European Union on receiving macrofinancial assistance from the European Union in the amount of up to EUR 1.2 billion, which the Verkhovna Rada adopted on August 25.

KYIV, Sept 15 – Most Kyiv restaurants that tried online food delivery service during the lockdown had suspended the practice unable to sustain profitable operation, Dmytro Borysov, a Kyiv restaurateur, said.

KYIV, Sept 15 – Ukraine and the United Kingdom may be able to join forces in developing renewable energy and hydrogen projects, as well as transforming the country’s coal industry, Energy Minister Olha Buslavets said.

KYIV, Sept 15 – The hryvnia will devalue to UAH 29-30/$1 at the end of 2020, and by the end of 2021 it will be UAH 29.50-30.50/$1, Head of Corporate Research at ICU investment group Oleksandr Martynenko said.

KYIV, Sept 16 – Ukraine called on Austrian companies to invest in building rolling stock for Ukrzaliznytsia, the state railroad company, amid growing demand for transportation despite the coronavirus pandemic.