KYIV, Jan 24 – Ukraine is ready to consider the sale of the state-owned Sense Bank and the privatization of a stake in Ukrnafta, First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economy Yulia Svyrydenko told Forbes Ukraine.

DAVOS, Jan 24 – Ukraine is currently preparing its own strategy for the development of the critical raw materials (CRM) industry, will discuss it with partners and present it at the Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC-2025) in Rome in July this year, said First Deputy Economy Minister Oleksiy Sobolev.

KYIV, Jan 25 – Over the past three months, there has been positive dynamics in increasing export transportation of agricultural products across the Black Sea, which has helped Ukraine reduce pressure and reduce grain exports to the European Union, Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Mykola Solsky said in a comment to the Interfax-Ukraine agency on Thursday.

KYIV, Jan 25 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has improved its estimate of real gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2023 from 4.9% in the October forecast to 5.7%, maintaining growth expectations in 2024 at 3.6% and worsening the forecast for 2025 by 0.2 percentage points (pp) to 5.8%, the regulator said in a press release on Thursday.

KYIV, Jan 25 – Agricultural and industrial group of companies Ovostar Union, one of the leading producers of eggs and egg products in Ukraine, in 2022 reduced the production of chicken shell eggs by 9% compared to 2021, to 1.55 billion eggs, and sales by 6%, to 1.08 billion units.

KYIV, Jan 25 – The Ukrainian gas storage operator, Ukrtransgaz, has planned to overhaul ten wells, as well as intensify another 20 wells at one of the western Ukrainian underground gas storage facilities (UGS) in 2023.

KYIV, Jan 26 – State-owned energy trader Energy Company of Ukraine (ECU) and the Turkish company Karpowership, together with national and international organizations, plan to develop a project to finance and launch 500 MW of electric power from floating power plants for Ukraine.

KYIV, Jan 26 – Rising food prices are recorded in Ukraine, including the cost of a standard set of vegetables for cooking borscht, a Ukrainian beet soup, in January 2022 more than doubled the figure for January last year, according to a Tuesday posting on the website of the national scientific center Institute of Agrarian Economics (IAE).

KYIV, Jan 25 – Hydrogen can be widely used in Ukraine in 7-10 years, mainly within the framework of production clusters, Oleh Nykonorov, director of Regional Gas Company (RGC), believes.

KYIV, Jan 25 – The owner of the UFuture group, businessman Vasyl Khmelnitsky, has said that he and his family have no plans to leave Ukraine and go abroad, and expressed confidence that there will be no full-scale war and its threats are not justified.