KYIV, Feb 5 – The postal and logistics operator Meest Express Trading House LLC (Meest Express, Lviv) plans to develop the chain of its drop-off and pick-up points and increase the number of automated parcel terminals in Ukraine in 2019, CEO and President of the Meest Group Rostyslav Kisil told the Top 100 Ratings magazine in an interview. | More

KYIV, Feb 5 – Ukrzaliznytsia has reduced the frequency of trains running to the Russian Federation, and from February 5, 2019, trains No. 24/23 Odesa-Moscow-Odesa and No. 20/19 Kharkiv-Moscow-Kharkiv will run every other day instead of the daily service. | More

KYIV, Feb 4 - Zaporizhia-based steel mill Zaporizhstal, one of the largest taxpayers in Ukraine and Zaporizhia region in particular, reduced rolled steel production by 4.1% in January 2019 year-over-year, to 289,900 tons. | More

KYIV, Feb 4 - Ukraine in January 2019 reduced imports of natural gas by 68.8%, or by 553.8 million cubic meters (mcm) compared to the same month of 2018, to 247.7 mcm, according to an update from Ukrtransgaz. | More

KYIV, Feb 4 – Nuclear fuel produced by the U.S.-based Westinghouse Electric Corporation can be loaded amid the active phase of the second power unit of South-Ukrainian nuclear power plant (NPP) by 2020, Director General of the NPP Volodymyr Lisnichenko told the parliament's newspaper Holos Ukrainy in an interview. | More

KYIV, Feb 4 – Italy's Ernest Airlines plans to open new destinations from Kyiv to Tirana, Rome and Genoa in 2019.

"The Ernest network is rapidly developing in directions between Italy, Albania and Ukraine. New flights from Kyiv Airport (Zhuliany) will be carried out to Tirana, Rome and Genoa," the airport's press service has said. | More

KYIV, Feb 4 – The state nuclear generating company Energoatom signed a contract to supply spare parts for diesel generators for the Yuzhnoukrainsk nuclear power plant (NPP) for UAH 80 million with Wartsila France (the French division of Finland's Wartsila). | More

KYIV, Feb 4 – The Big Three of mobile communications operators has said that the local databases for mobile number portability (MNP) are ready and they are ready to start inter-operator tests. | More

KYIV, Feb 1 – The Kyiv City Council at a meeting on Thursday approved the tourism fee rate in the amount of 0.4% of the minimum wage for Ukrainian tourists and 1% of the minimum wage for foreign tourists. | More

KYIV, Feb 1 - The Ministry of Economy and Finance of France has allocated a grant of EUR 560,000 to Ukraine to finance a joint project of Ukrenergo and RTE International for the implementation of Ukraine's first energy storage system, the press service of the Ukrainian company has reported. | More