KYIV, Nov 24 – Billionaire Rinat Akhmetov’s holding group SCM has decided to withdraw from the insurance business, which is fully consistent with the strategy of focusing its investment portfolio, according to the company's website.

KYIV, Nov 25 – Ukraine’s economy is likely to contract 5.2% on the year in 2020, not 6.8% that has been previously forecast, Bank of America Securities reported.

KYIV, Nov 25 – Biopharmaceutical company Biopharma has collected enough plasma for the production of the first batch of hyperimmune immunoglobulin, a drug to treat COVID-19, Kostiantyn Yefymenko, Biopharma president, said.

KYIV, Nov 25 – Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal was asked Wednesday to intervene into a dispute between the two state companies over the price of uranium oxide concentrate that threatens to undermine the country’s uranium mining industry.

KYIV, Nov 24 – Head of Zakarpattia Regional State Administration Oleksiy Petrov does not agree with the plans to build a wind power plant on Borzhava meadow, he is ready to defend his position in court.

KYIV, Nov 24 – The European Energy Community (EEC) called on Ukraine to quickly introduce constitutional amendments that would ensure independence of the national regulatory commission to address serious corruption concerns.

KYIV, Nov 24 – By the end of this year, the draft Concept for the introduction and development of the green bonds market in Ukraine, which will establish the rules of their circulation, will be submitted for approval by the government by the end of this year.

KYIV, Nov 25 – The Ministry of Infrastructure is preparing new public private partnership (PPP) projects to build infrastructure across the country.

The Ministry of Infrastructure said Tuesday it picked Ernst & Young LLC to select advisors to prepare a feasibility study and tender documentation for a new concession project in the port of Chornomorsk in Odesa region.

KYIV, Nov 22 – Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk has signed two documents for the total amount of EUR 900 million in relation to the project of co-financing construction of Ukrainian roads by the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

KYIV, Nov 22 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the government of Ukraine in London on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding on the projects to finance the rehabilitation of the M05 Kyiv-Odesa road in Cherkasy, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv and Odesa regions of 314 km long as well as the construction of a northern section of the bypass around the city of Lviv of 23 km long.