WARSAW, Aug. 17 - Bank Pekao, Poland??™s second largest bank and a subsidiary of UniCredit of Italy, won praise from analysts for plans to expand in Ukraine.

KIEV, Aug. 18 ??“ Ukraine will increase tariffs it charges Russia for shipping natural gas for exports to Europe if Russia presses ahead with a gas price hike, a Naftogaz Ukrayiny official warned on Friday.

KYIV, July 19 - Following the results of the large-scale repair campaign, Ukraine plans to return 1.7 GW of damaged capacities to the energy system by the beginning of the autumn-winter period, the press service of the Ministry of Energy reported on Wednesday.

KYIV, July 19 – NPC Ukrenergo, the Ministry of Energy and the Ministry of Finance have signed two agreements with the World Bank to provide the company with grant assistance in the amount of $240 million to improve the power system reliability, Volodymyr Kudrytsky, Board Chairman of Ukrenergo, said.

KYIV, July 19 – The Consumer Confidence Index (CCI) of Ukrainians fell by 9.5 points in June to 82.5 on a 200-point scale, which corresponds to its figure in September last year, according to a study by the Info Sapiens agency.

KYIV, July 19 – Kernel reported damage to 40% of grain storage and transshipment facilities in Chornomorsk port because of a missile attack by Russia on the night of July 19, it will take at least 12 months to restore these assets, its press release said.

KYIV, July 19 - The Norwegian company Emergy (formerly NBT) plans to close a deal to raise financing for the first two phases of Zophia Wind Farm (Zaporizhia region) with an installed capacity of 337 MW by the end of July, Emergy Vice President Magnus Johansen has told reporters in Kyiv.

KYIV, July 19 – The Ukrainian steel sector is currently facing three big challenges: environmental modernization, product access to export markets and problems within the country – the provision of raw materials, in particular, scrap metal, as well as tariffs of monopolies and the need to increase domestic consumption of metal.

KYIV, July 19 - The capitalization of agricultural land will grow by at least 7-10% per year and in ten years will amount to hundreds of billions of dollars, Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Roman Leschenko has said during a discussion meeting in Kyiv region.

KYIV, July 19 - The Ministry of Economy has estimated the growth of Ukraine's GDP in April-June 2021 at 6%, for January-May - at 0.7%, according to the ministry's website.

"The growth in the second quarter of 2021 will be about 6%," the ministry said.