KYIV, Jan 17 - The European Commission, despite the protestations of European countries neighboring Ukraine, is preparing a draft resolution to extend the duty-free mechanism for Ukrainian exports through mid-2025, Ukrainian media reported, citing an interview with Polish Minister of Agriculture Czeslaw Siekierski in Business Insider.

KYIV, Jan 11 – The poor work of government agencies leads to an annual budget shortfall of about UAH 9 billion from the sale of alcoholic beverages, competent agencies in 2019-2020 and over nine months of 2021 also did not provide an effective system of control over production and circulation of alcohol and administration of the excise tax.

KYIV, Jan 11 - The State Nuclear Regulatory Inspectorate of Ukraine has begun analysis of materials from Energoatom on the use of Westinghouse fuel for VVER-440 at Rivne nuclear power plant (NPP), announced for 2024, acting head of the inspectorate Oleh Korikov said.

KYIV, Jan 11 – Stellantis, which sells Peugeot, Citroen, Opel, DS Automobiles vehicles in Ukraine, plans to take more than 10% of the market of new cars and light commercial vehicles in 2022, the company reported.

KYIV, Jan 11 – Ukraine International Airlines (UIA, Kyiv) plans to restore the hub model in 2022, return wide-body aircraft to its fleet, and launch long-haul flights, the company said.

KYIV, Jan 13 – Transit of crude oil through Ukraine by pipeline transport to European countries and Belarus in 2021 fell by 3.2% on the year to 12.725 million tons, according to the data of Ukrtransnafta.

KYIV, Jan 12 – The state program Ukrainian Dream, which, among other things, will provide for mortgages at 5% per annum, will be launched in January-March 2022, deputy head of the President's Office Rostyslav Shurma said in an exclusive interview with Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, Jan 12 – The Cabinet of Ministers instructed the State Statistics Service to monitor the prices of a number of food products, medical products and fuel on a daily basis, and the data obtained shall be sent to the Ministry of Economy for analysis, according to a government resolution adopted at a meeting on Wednesday.

KYIV, Jan 15 – Ukraine warned potential investors that any transaction in Russia-annexed Crimea involving state-owned Ukrainian assets will be legally deemed ‘null and void.’

KYIV, Jan 15 – Consumers in Ukraine increased online purchases by 50% after the government had announced a three-week COVID-19 lockdown through January 24, OLX online platform data analysis shows.