KYIV, Jan 22 – Ukraine in 2018 exported $229 million worth of fruits and berries, which is 17% more than a year earlier.

According to the Ukrsadprom association, the main products in this group were walnuts, which were delivered for $117 million, frozen fruits and berries for $78 million, apples and pears worth $15 million. Their total share in exports of horticultural products was 92%.

BRUSSELS, Jan 22 - Andriy Kobolev, the chairman of the board of NJSC Naftogaz Ukrayiny, has expressed surprise at the offer of Russia's Gazprom to continue the contract on Russian gas transit through Ukraine to European countries signed in 2009 without expert consultations.

KYIV, Jan 22 - The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) in January will not significantly weaken monetary policy, but by the end of the year the refinancing rate could fall to 15-17% from 18% per annum, according to bankers polled by Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Jan. 19 - Ukrgazvydobuvannia in 2016 received 13 new special permits for exploration and production of hydrocarbons, company chairman Oleh Prokhorenko said at a press conference in Kiev.

DAVOS, Jan. 19 – Kharkiv Tractor Plant, which resumed operations on January 6 after a many-month idle period, will soon produce the first tractor and by the end of February the plant seeks to produce 150 tractors a month, DCH Group owner and President Oleksandr Yaroslavsky has said.

KIEV, Jan. 20 – Ukrgazvydobuvannia increased sales of natural gas intended for households by 1.4% or 184 million cubic meters (mcm) in 2016, to 13.002 billion cubic meters (bcm), First Deputy Chairman Oleksandr Romaniuk said at a press conference in Kiev.

DAVOS, Jan. 20 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is ready to help Kiev City to implement the bid orbital road construction project, Mayor Vitali Klitschko told reporters at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

DAVOS, Jan. 20 – Kiev City is holding talks with three companies from Norway, Poland and France on the possibility of taking the city's heat pipelines to concession, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.

KIEV, Jan. 20 – The Ukrainian government seeks to switch all thermal power plants (TPPs) of public joint-stock company Centrenergo that are burning anthracite coal to burning gas coal. This will be done using the loan provided by China, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Ihor Nasalyk told reporters in Kiev.

KIEV, Jan. 20 – Roshen Corporation, which is owned by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, has decided to stop the production activity of its Lipetsk confectionery factory in Russia.