KYIV, Aug 15 – Ukrainian Power Bridge Company Limited (UPBCL, a consortium of Westinghouse Electric Sweden AB, Polenergia International S.àr.l. and EDF Trading Limited) has been named the winner of a competition to select a private partner for the Ukraine-EU Energy Bridge Project, according to information in the protocol of the commission conducting the competition. | More

KYIV, Aug 15 – The number of plots of land suitable for building cottage estates 5-10 km from Kyiv has decreased by 65% over the past decade, and will continue to decline over the next five to seven years, says Vladislav Kononov, Managing Partner of AVM Development Group. | More

KYIV, Aug. 18 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received the traditional bread-and-salt gesture of hospitality from young Ukrainians dressed in embroidered attire after he and his wife Sara landed in Kyiv on Sunday for a two-day visit to Ukraine, RFE/RL reported. | More

KYIV, Aug 15 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny expects to complete the process to recover $3 billion from Russia's Gazprom at the end of 2020, Naftogaz's Executive Director Yuriy Vitrenko has said. | More

KYIV, Aug 16 – Power generation by all power plants of state-owned enterprise Energoatom in January-July 2019 increased by 4.5% (2.099 billion kWh) compared to the same period of 2018, to 48.861 billion kWh. | More

KYIV, Aug 15 – Minority shareholders of Ukrnafta represented by the Privat group have given up the right to appoint the chairman of the company's board only from their nominees in exchange for forming a supervisory board with a majority of independent directors, Executive Director of Naftogaz Ukrainy Yuriy Vitrenko said. | More

KYIV, Aug. 15 - Ukraine's government said it will not seek to take away part of Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko's executive powers, at least for now. | More

KYIV, Aug 15 – The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) has provided permission to Canadian Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited to acquire Universalna insurance company via subsidiary of FFHL Group Ltd. FFH Ukraine LCC, which would grant over 25% of the votes in the management body of the insurance company. | More

KYIV, Aug 14 – The next month or two will be characterized by low inflation, Bohdan Danylyshyn, Chairman of the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), said. | More

KYIV, Aug 14 – The growth of gross domestic product (GDP) of Ukraine in April-June 2019 was 4.6% compared to the same period in 2018, whereas the growth rate in the first quarter was lower, being fixed at 2.5%. | More