KYIV, April 20 – As of April 18, 17 shopping centers with a total area of 846,000 square meters were damaged due to the shelling by the Russian army in Ukraine, the press service of the Ukrainian Council of Shopping Centers (UCSC) has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, April 20 – The abolition of quotas for the export of agricultural products from Ukraine to the countries of the European Union or the revision of their rates upwards may become the most important support for the Ukrainian agro-industrial complex in the context of the military aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.

KYIV, April 21 – The Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine (GTSOU) is ready to provide additional capacities for the transit of gas of the Russian Federation to the EU for the timely restoration of gas stocks in European gas storage facilities, Head of the operator Serhiy Makogon said.

KYIV, April 21 – The world's largest road travel marketplace BlaBlaCar has bought the Ukrainian automated bus passenger transport management company Octobus.

According to a BlaBlaCar, Octobus is a cloud-based platform that enables bus carriers to automate their business processes, from sales and marketing to analytics, accounting and fleet management.

KYIV, April 21 – Morgan Stanley advised investors to buy the dip in Ukraine’s Value Recovery Instruments (VRI), suggesting its fair value is much higher, the bank said in a report. VRIs are currently trading at 102.4, but its fair value is 145, Morgan Stanley said in the report, according to Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, April 20 – The Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) expects Ukraine's GDP to grow by 4.7% in 2021, and by 2.7% and 3.7% in the next two years, respectively, Head of the KSE Center of Macroeconomic Modeling Yuriy Sholomytsky said.

KYIV, April 21 – Ukraine will introduce a special three-year duty on the import of cut fresh roses, regardless of the country of origin and export, the size of the duty in the first year of its effect will be 56%, in the second it will be 44.8% and in the third it will be 35.84%.

KYIV, April 17 – The entrepreneurs, who rent premises and, in fact, cannot use them due to quarantine, must pay only the cost of utilities in March or can agree with the property owners to completely cancel the rent charge.

KYIV, April 17 – Stocks of fresh nuclear fuel formed at the National Nuclear Generating Company Energoatom allow all 15 power units of the NPP to work for approximately one and a half years, but the non-payment crisis is a real threat to the delay in fresh nuclear fuel supplies and the removal of spent nuclear fuel in 2020, the company said.

KYIV, April 17 – The gas transmission system operator of Slovakia, Eustream, is ready to provide a tariff discount of up to 40% for daily transmission capacities booked at the entry/exit points, creating an attractive opportunity to store gas in Ukrainian underground gas storage (UGS) facilities, Head of the Ukrainian gas transmission system operator (GTSOU) Serhiy Makogon has said.