KYIV, Dec 18 - The U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) has approved the provision of a $150 million loan and up to $320 million for insurance and reinsurance for the project to build a large wind farm in Zaporizhia region by EuroCape.

KYIV, Dec 15 - The Turkish company Onur will complete the reconstruction of the section of the Kyiv-Odesa highway from Kyiv to Bila Tserkva instead of Altcom Financial and Industrial Group, Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan said.

KYIV, Dec 15 – Ukrzaliznytsia plans to use UAH 22 billion for capital investments in 2018, of which about UAH 7 billion will be spent on railway infrastructure, head of the company Yevhen Kravtsov said.

KYIV, Dec 15 – The chance as a man to get a reply from a woman in Ukraine at an online dating website is 35.5%, and the average age of women interested in online dating is about 31 years, according to Austria's Wogoal entertainment portal.

KYIV, Dec 15 – The government-sustained energy efficiency loans program in three years allowed raising over UAH 6 billion of investment in the Ukrainian economy, Head of Ukraine's State Agency on Energy Efficiency and Energy Saving Serhiy Savchuk has said.

KYIV, Dec 15 – Ukrainian authorities are faced with the task of making the nation a place where the rule of law and security are ensured, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said.

KYIV, Dec 18 – Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan on Monday complained that lawmakers have refused to approve a bill that would help improve infrastructure sector.

KYIV, Dec 18 - Industrial Union of Donbas (ISD) Corporation has officially announced the actual loss of effective managerial control over its production assets (industrial sites and office premises in Alchevsk, Luhansk region), including Alchevsk Iron and Steel Works, Alchevsk Coke and Chemical Plant (Alchevskkoks) and Ecoenergy, which together constitute a significant part of the ISD Group business, and over office premises.

KYIV, Dec 18 – The State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPF) has scheduled putting a 99.567% stake in public joint-stock company Odesa Port-Side Plant up for sale in February 2018 and a 78.29% stake in public joint-stock company Centrenergo in June 2018.

KYIV, Dec 18 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) would be able to again cut the refinancing rate no earlier than spring 2018, Senior Economist of Alfa-Bank (Ukraine) Oleksiy Blynov said.