LVIV, April 28 ??“ Ukraine should consider constructing a new oil refinery, Naftogaz Ukrayiny Oleksiy Chairman Ivchenko said in Lviv on Wednesday, according to Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, March 27 – In the annual world ranking 2023 IQAir World Air Quality, Kyiv is among the thirty capitals of the world with the best air quality indicators. Having settled down between Madrid and Luxembourg, the capital of Ukraine took 22nd place in the ranking, finding itself in the green zone, said Deputy Head of Kyiv City State Administration for self-governing powers Volodymyr Prokopov.

KYIV, March 27 – The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors on Tuesday approved a new Development Policy Operation (DPO) for Ukraine in the amount of $1.5 billion.

KYIV, March 27 - Russia struck the northeastern city of Kharkiv with aerial bombs Wednesday for the first time since 2022, killing at least one civilian and wounding 16 others, local officials said.

KYIV, March 26 – Franco-Polish steps to expand restrictions on the import of Ukrainian food products into the EU could provoke the worsening and prolongation of Russia’s war in Ukraine, Minister of Agricultural Policy and Food Mykola Solsky said in an interview with the Financial Times.

KYIV, March 28 – The security issue has become the reason for not returning to Ukraine for 50% of citizens who left the country after February 24, 2022.

This is evidenced by the results of an online survey assessing the migration processes and moods of Ukrainians, which were presented by executive director of the Ukrainian Institute for the Future Vadym Denysenko at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, March 28 – Most of the members of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), at a meeting on March 15, believe that the regulator may switch to key policy rate reductions earlier than envisaged in its January macroeconomic forecast, subject to a slowdown in inflation, and three out of 11 members said that the NBU may launch a cycle of key policy rate cuts as soon as the autumn or even earlier, the NBU press service reported on Monday.

KYIV, March 28 – The economic recovery will be barely noticeable in 2023, a moderate GDP growth of 2% is expected, which implies the economic output will be at 71-73% of the pre-war level, such a macroeconomic forecast was published by the ICU investment group on Tuesday.

KYIV, March 28 - The United States on Tuesday threw support behind a special international tribunal to try Russia for "aggression" against Ukraine, building momentum to prosecute the crime for the first time since the aftermath of World War II, AFP reported.

KYIV, March 25 – A telephone conversation between U.S. President Joe Biden and President Volodymyr Zelensky will take place in the near future, but this call should be backed up by action, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs George Kent has said.