KYIV, May 18 – On May 31, Ukraine will make the first payment on Value Recovery Instruments (VRI) issued as part of the restructuring of Ukraine's public debt in 2015, which will amount to $40.7 million, according to a message posted on the Irish Stock Exchange.

KYIV, May 19 – Business expectations have improved among Ukrainian businesses across the board in April as the country has been emerging from COVID-19 pandemic with the government gradually lifting lockdown orders.

KYIV, May 18 – Ukraine’s government has approved the National Action Plan for Environmental Protection until 2025 with the aim, in particular, to bring the share of renewable energy sources to 17% by 2030 and increase the environmental efficiency index by 5 points. Government resolution No. 443-r dated April 21, 2021 published on the government website on Tuesday.

KYIV, May 18 – Energy Minister Herman Haluschenko and Director of the Energy Community Secretariat Janez Kopac have agreed to cooperate in a bid to consistently implementing reforms and supporting decarbonization of the energy sector, the Energy Ministry and the Energy Community Secretariat reported on their websites on Tuesday.

KYIV, May 18 - The Ukrainian industrial company Interpipe expands its cooperation with the national German railway operator Deutsche Bahn.

The company said that in April 2021, the first batch of new design 840 mm ET 442 wheels has already been shipped and successfully inspected at the customer's site.

KYIV, May 19 – Ukraine should quickly privatize Centrenergo, one of the largest fossil fuel-burning power generating companies, in order to improve its efficiency, Energy and Environment Protection Minister Olha Buslavets said Tuesday.

KYIV, May 19 - Ukraine’s largest coal mining company DTEK Energy restarted 10 coal mines amid gradually increasing demand as the government has been easing lockdown measures, the company reported.

KYIV, May 19 – Billionaire Igor Kolomoiskiy, a key supporter of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, is under investigation by a US federal grand jury for allegedly laundering hundreds of millions of dollars in US real estate, BuzzFeed News reported Tuesday.

KYIV, May 18 – DTEK Oil & Gas LLC in May reached a record daily level of natural gas production both for the company and private companies in the amount of 5 million cubic meters (mcm), the company said in a press release.

KYIV, May 18 – The Ministry of Energy and Environmental Protection during negotiations with investors in renewable energy sources (RES) intends to reach agreements on the restructuring of the feed-in tariff without extension of the payout time, acting Energy and Environmental Protection Minister of Ukraine Olha Buslavets told Interfax-Ukraine.