KIEV, April 19 ??“ The government is planning a stage-by-stage increase in power rates for industrial and individual consumers, Fuel and Energy Minister Ivan Plachkov announced.

KIEV, April 19 ??“ From January through March, Zaporizhia Car Building Plant (ZAZ), Ukraine's biggest car producer, increased output by 63.5% over the same period last year, to 34,988 cars.

KIEV, April 18 ??“ IKEA Group, the fast growing low-price Swedish furniture company, plans to invest between $700 million and $800 million in several Ukrainian projects, marking the company??™s further expansion in Eastern Europe.

KYIV, March 19 - The Consumer Confidence Index of Ukrainians in February increased by 0.7 points and reached 76.3 points (on a scale from zero to 200), while a month ago its growth was 4.4 points, and in December 2024 - by 0.4 points and amounted to 71.1 points, according to the results of the research by the Info Sapiens agency.

KYIV, March 18 – The deal for the sale of the third-largest Ukrainian mobile operator, Lifecell LLC (TM lifecell), to the French investment company NJJ Capital may be closed between April and September 2024, according to Lifecell CEO Ismet Yazici in an interview with Forbes.

KYIV, March 18 – Consolidated net loss of Metinvest B.V., the parent company of the mining and metallurgical group Metinvest, reached $194 million in 2023, while in 2022 it was $2.193 billion (a 91% decrease).

KYIV, March 18 – The government adopted a procedure for providing compensation for the cost of engineering and transport infrastructure facilities built by the applicant/investor with substantial investments and the costs of connecting and joining the engineering and transport networks necessary for the implementation of the project.

KYIV, March 19 – United Mining and Chemical Company, under whose management Vilnohirsk Mining and Metallurgical Combine (Dnipropetrovsk region) and Irshansk Mining and Processing Plant (Zhytomyr region) have been transferred, began selling titanium raw materials to Italy, Spain, Germany and systematically expands the geography of exports.

KYIV, March 19 – State-owned Oschadbank will take part in the implementation of the project of Friendly Windtechnology LLC to build a wind farm with a capacity of 520 MW in western Ukraine, said the deputy board chairman of the financial institution, Yuriy Katsion.

KYIV, March 19 – EU countries have not yet been able to agree on the upper limit of duty-free imports of Ukrainian grain, as well as the need to extend restrictions to other products from Ukraine, the German publication n-tv has reported.