KYIV, Aug 29 - A U.N. nuclear watchdog team set off on an urgent mission Monday to safeguard the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia atomic power plant at the heart of fighting in Ukraine, a long-awaited trip the world hopes will help avoid a radioactive catastrophe.

KYIV, Aug 26 – The Ministry of Economy expects a decline in GDP of at least 30-35% in 2022, and for the next year it has developed four macroeconomic scenarios, which, depending on the conditions, give from 0.4% further decline to 15.5% of economic growth, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy Yulia Svyrydenko has reported.

KYIV, Aug 29 – The Ministry of Infrastructure is not considering the resumption of exports of metal products within the framework of the grain initiative, but will initiate it at the first opportunity, Deputy Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Yuriy Vaskov said.

KYIV, Aug 30 – The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) should become one of the key players in the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine, Head of the President's Office of Ukraine Andriy Yermak said.

KYIV, Aug 30 – The total public debt of Ukraine, after the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) devaluated the hryvnia official exchange rate against the US dollar by 25% in July, decreased by 8.2% in US dollar terms, to $96.79 billion, while in hryvnia it increased by 14.8%, to UAH 3.539 trillion, according to data on the website of the Ministry of Finance.

KYIV, Aug 27 - Oxford Economics has downgraded the forecast for Ukraine's GDP growth in 2021 to 4% from 4.4% in the July forecast, and the risks of further lockdowns and expectations of tightening fiscal and monetary policy led to a deterioration in the forecast for economic growth in 2022 from 4.2% to 3.5%.

KYIV, Aug 28 – The financial condition of Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) is currently stable, allowing the company to pay all current payments, and is in dialogue with the state, UIA CEO Yevhen Dykhne said.

KYIV, Aug 28 – The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has unveiled the financial pyramid scheme, the organizers of which deceived more than 600,000 people and embezzled more than $250 million, the SBU reported on Thursday.

KYIV, Aug 28 – Minister of Infrastructure Vladyslav Krykliy and acting Under Secretary of the United States for International Trade Joseph C. Semsar have discussed further partnership between the countries to renew the rolling stock of Ukrzaliznytsia.

KYIV, Aug 28 – Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said the government will not consider the introduction of severe restrictive measures in the event of a second wave of coronavirus spread but will rely on adaptive quarantine and localization of disease outbreaks.