KIEV, Oct. 19 – Ukraine and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development have signed a loan agreement on a EUR 175 million loan for the construction of a 190-kilometer 750 kV transmission line between the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and a new substation in Kakhovka.

A loan agreement was signed by EBRD First Vice President Varel Freeman, Ukrainian Fuel and Energy Minister Yuriy Boyko and Director of the National Ukrenergo energy company Anatoliy Khodakovsky.