KIEV, Sept. 28 – Israeli businessmen are interested in the privatization in Ukraine to take place in 2016 and 2017, President Petro Poroshenko said.

"We have agreed on significant broadening of economic cooperation. I proposed to our Israeli partners and investors to take part in the large-scale privatization to take place in Ukraine in 2016 and 2017. We heard the large interest in it," he said at a joint briefing with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin.