KYIV, Oct 4 – Experts from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) for the first time, based on the principle of Kakhovka HPP, calculated the losses of ecosystem services in Ukraine (all useful resources and benefits that a person can receive from nature), which, if their report is submitted, will help use the proposed principles and formula in perspective.

KYIV, Oct 5 – The Ministry of Economy expects Ukraine's GDP to grow by 4% in 2024, although it previously predicted it at 5%, and such a forecast is included in the draft state budget 2024, First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economy Yulia Svyrydenko has said.

KYIV, Oct 5 – German Minister of Agriculture Cem Ozdemir arrived on a visit to Odesa, where he promised to continue supporting Ukraine and visited two phytosanitary laboratories, which received equipment purchased by FAO with funds from the governments of Germany, Japan and the EU, the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine said.

KYIV, Oct 5 –The World Bank forecasts Ukraine's GDP growth by 3.5% in 2023 and 4.0% in 2024, which is 1.5 percentage points (p.p.) and 0.5 p.p., respectively, higher than June estimates, the organization said in its updated economic forecast for developing countries in Europe and Central Asia on Thursday.

KYIV, Oct 5 - A Russian rocket blast turned a village cafe and store in eastern Ukraine into rubble Thursday, killing at least 51 civilians in one of the deadliest attacks in the war in months, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top officials in Kyiv.

KYIV, Oct 5 – Bankers hope for a quick appointment of a new head of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) to replace Kyrylo Shevchenko, who announced his resignation on October 4, and expect the regulator to maintain a consistent course even after the new appointment, according to a poll by bankers.

KYIV, Oct 5 – The decision to create the Joint Stock Company Operating Organization of the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant by the Russian Rostatom state concern is null and has no effect, the plant has worked and will continue operating in the power system of Ukraine, National Nuclear Generating Company Energoatom has said.

KYIV, Oct 5 – Ukrainian law enforcement officials Wednesday reported discovering more evidence of torture and killings in areas retaken from Russian forces just as the Kremlin had pushed for annexing four regions.

KYIV, Oct 4 - The reform plan for 2021-2023 presented at a meeting of the Servant of the People faction assumes an increase in the share of nuclear generation in Ukraine by 10 percent, according to the faction's Facebook page.

KYIV, Oct 4 – President Volodymyr Zelensky called on the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy to intensify an information campaign on the importance of vaccinating citizens against coronavirus (COVID-19).