KYIV, March 20 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) said the level of counterfeit banknotes of the national currency is low, according to monitoring of the removal of these banknotes from circulation in 2018, according to a posting on the NBU's website.

KYIV, March 19 – Germany's Leoni AG, which has automotive wiring systems plants in Stryi (Lviv region) and Kolomyia (Ivano-Frankivsk region), plans to launch the third phase of the plant in Kolomyia by the end of this year, Plant Director Ruslan Graham said.

KYIV, March 19 - Tractebel Engineering from ENGIE Group in a preliminary feasibility study for building a ground solar power plant with a capacity of 1.2 GW in the exclusion zone around Chornobyl nuclear power plant (NPP) offers a modular concept of building eight 150 MW substations.

KYIV, March 19 - Metinvest mining and metallurgical group has offered the holders of eurobonds with maturity till December 31, 2021 to redeem the securities ahead of schedule.

KYIV, March 19 - The growth of Ukraine's investment attractiveness is possible only with simultaneous elimination of selective justice, corruption in law enforcement agencies and the adoption of a number of important laws.

KYIV, March 20 - MMC Ukraine, the official distributor of Mitsubishi Motors in Ukraine, joined the expansion of charging infrastructure in Ukraine, opening the first fast charging stations in the Mitsubishi dealer network in the cities with the population exceeding one million people, in particular Kyiv, Dnipro and Kharkiv, the press service of the company has said.

KYIV, March 20 - The chances of Russia's Gazprom to effectively cancel the decision of the Stockholm arbitration, made in late February 2018, are slim, but the procedure of executing this decision may drag on for years, lawyers said.

KYIV, March 20 - The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade has sent a request to the United States to remove Ukrainian metal products from the effect of 25% import duties on Ukrainian steel products.

MOSCOW, March 16 - Vnesheconombank (VEB) is expecting to close a deal on the sale of Prominvestbank despite the complex situation regarding Russian banks in Ukraine, VEB head Sergei Gorkov told journalists on the sidelines of a board meeting of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.

MOSCOW, March 16 - Sberbank of Russia said Ukraine's decision earlier today to impose sanctions is "discriminatory and politically motivated.”