KYIV, April 6 – The National Bank of Ukraine asked the country’s banks to suspend dividend payments to shareholders until October to maintain liquidity amid massive challenges to the financial system from unfolding coronavirus pandemic. | More

KYIV, April 6 – Ukraine will seek to roll over the payment of $1 billion Eurobond due in May amid mounting stress on the economy caused by expanding coronavirus pandemic, Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko said. | More

KYIV, April 6 – Ukraine’s largest steel company ArcelorMital Kryvy Rih is working to shift supplies of concentrate from its traditional markets in Europe to China amid sweeping market disruptions caused by coronavirus pandemic. | More

KYIV, April 5 - Ukraine, which expects a sharp rise of coronavirus cases in the coming weeks, sent doctors to disease-hit Italy on Saturday to assist their Italian colleagues and to gain field experience, Reuters reported. | More

KYIV, April 3 – Ukraine suspended exports of buckwheat, one of its major food staples, amid fears that coronavirus pandemic has broken global supply chains and may lead to sweeping food shortages. | More

KYIV, April 3 – Ukraine’s air pollution dropped for the first time in over a decade after coronavirus quarantine measures shut down most of the steel and mining sector, the country’s biggest polluters, a government study showed. | More

KYIV, April 2 – Dozens of civilians are stranded in war zone unable to cross the line of contact in eastern Ukraine following the shutdown of border due to coronavirus quarantine, Human Rights Watch reported Thursday. | More

KYIV, April 2 - Ukraine’s grain exports reached a record 46 million metric tons in the first nine months of the 2019/20 season versus 37.6 million mt mshipped in the same period a season earlier, Reuters reported Thursday citing the Ministry for Development of Economy, Trade and Agriculture. | More

KYIV, April 2 – Ukraine should create millions of jobs following the coronavirus outbreak to help those temporarily out of work due to the illness and those who have returned to the country in evacuation, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Thursday. | More