KYIV, Feb 27 – Ukrenergo's 70 mobile repair teams, including 1,500 specialists, are working to restore the power system after enemy shelling, and have repaired more than 10,000 km of power lines, the company said.

KYIV, Feb 27 – ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih (Dnipropetrovsk region) plans to invest $700 million in modernization of equipment before 2023, CEO Mauro Longobardo has said.

KYIV, Feb 26 – The Ukrmetallurgprom association has commended the effect of the export duty for scrap metal in two years since their introduction, supporting a new bill on the increase of the duty from EUR 42 per ton to EUR 58 per ton and its prolongation for three more years registered in January 2019.

Candidate to the post of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and members of his team have made an arrangement on the possible further cooperation with representatives of the World Bank to ensure rule of law, independence of anti-corruption agencies, the creation of independent Anti-Corruption Court, the launch of the land market, healthcare and fiscal reforms, the real gas sector reform and the launch of affordable lending in Ukraine.

KYIV, Feb 26 – Ukraine plans to build a nuclear fuel fabrication plant at the site of the Yuzhnoukrainsk nuclear power plant (NPP), announcing a tender to build and finance the project in autumn 2019, Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Ihor Nasalyk has said.

KYIV, Feb 26 – A total of 102,200 tons of anthracite imported by Ukraine from Belarus in 2018 were not extracted on the non-government controlled areas in Donbas, UEnergy and Coal Industry Minister Ihor Nasalyk has said.

KYIV, Feb 26 – Motor Sich does not have information about plans of the state to invest in the company, which were presented in mass media by top managers in the defense industry, as well as about the possible participation of the state in capitalization of the company, Head of the supervisory board of Motor Sich Anatoliy Malysh has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, Feb 26 – The interagency working group for reform of the State Fiscal Service has decided that the central administration and territorial departments of the future State Tax Service will be merged into one legal entity and the same will be done for the State Customs Service, a member of the interagency working group from the Union of Ukrainian Entrepreneurs (SUP), Andriy Yerashov, has said.

KYIV, Feb 27 – The Constitutional Court has ruled unconstitutional the article of the Criminal Code of Ukraine on illicit enrichment of officials, as its provisions violate presumption of innocence.

KYIV, Feb 27 – Up to 300 MW of wind power capacities could be introduced in Ukraine in 2019, which is at least twice more than in 2018, Board Chairman of the Ukrainian Wind Energy Association (UWEA) Andriy Konechenkov has said.