KIEV, Jan. 26 - Ukrainian airlines saw a 31.3% rise in passenger transportation in 2016, to 8.278 million people. Cargo and mail transportation grew by 5.2%, to 74,300 tons.

KIEV, Jan. 26 – National Nuclear Generating Company Energoatom announced it intends to continue the completion of construction of unit three of Tashlyk hydroelectric pumped storage power plant (HPP) in 2017.

KIEV, Jan. 26 – U.S. Cargill has asked PrivatBank (Dnipro) Chairman Oleksandr Shlapak, National Bank of Ukraine Governor Valeriya Gontareva and head of the Individuals Deposit Guarantee Fund Kostiantyn Vorushylin to clarify the forced conversion of the bank's liabilities to the company into its shareholder capital.

KIEV, Jan. 24 – Kernel, a large Ukrainian agrarian group, may buy an oilseed crushing plant in Ukraine with an annual capacity of around 1 million tons of sunflower seeds and expand its land bank by 200,000-250,000 ha, Kernel founder and Chairman Andriy Verevsky said.

KIEV, Jan. 25 - Ukrainian automotive corporation Bogdan announced it will present Bars-8, a new Ukrainian multipurpose armored vehicle, to potential customers in the Middle East during the 13th international defense exhibition IDEX 2017 to be held in Abu Dhabi (the UAE) on February 19-23.

KIEV, Jan. 25 - The State Property Fund intends by the end of 2017 to sell 99.967% of PJSC Odessa port-side chemical plant, 75.22% of PJSC Turboatom, 68.0095% in PJSC Zaporizhia Aluminium Combine (ZAlK), as well as state-owned stakes in Zaporizhia Titanium and Magnesium Combine (51%) and PJSC Azovmash (50%).

KIEV, Jan. 25 – Ukrainian businessmen Victor Pinchuk and Ihor Kolomoisky have reached a $2 billion dispute settlement out of court, The Telegraph reported.

MOSCOW, Jan. 26 – Ukraine's Antimonopoly Committee is blocking the sale of the Lukoil-Ukraine company by Russia's LUKOIL, citing SBU security service charges that LUKOIL, through Lukoil-Ukraine, financed terrorists and was involved in money laundering.

KIEV, Jan. 26 - Ukraine’s daily imports of European natural gas via Hungary increased by 38% to 3.7 million cubic meters on January 24, compared with about 2.7 million cu m earlier in January, UkrTransGaz, the state gas shipper, reported Monday.

KIEV, Jan. 23 – Ukrenergo announced it has signed contracts with CJSC Soyuz-Grid (Russia) and Dalekovod d.d. Zagreb (Croatia) worth EUR125.4 million within the project for building the 750 kV Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant-Kakhovska power grid.