Ukrainian aircraft An-225 Mriya has made its first flight after repair and modernization. The pilots raised the Mriya to a height of about 12 kilometers, where they tested the plane’s new navigation equipment. “Our designers have implemented another series of improvements in avionics. Such modernization is going on continuously,” Director of Antonov Airlines Mykhailo Kharchenko…
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has left the list of systemically important banks unchanged. It includes three banks – PJSC CB PrivatBank, JSC Ukreximbank and JSC Oshchadbank, the central bank’s press service reports. “PJSC CB PrivatBank, JSC Ukreximbank and JSC Oshchadbank have been designated as systemically important for 2018. This is stipulated in the…
The Deposit Guarantee Fund has extended the term of liquidation of three banks – JSC Commercial Bank Union, JSC Commercial Bank Expobank, and JSC Commercial Bank TK Credit, the Fund’s press service reports. “The Executive Directorate of the Deposit Guarantee Fund approved a decision dated March 15, No. 741, to extend the term of liquidation…
Tractebel Engineering from ENGIE Group in a preliminary feasibility study for building a ground solar power plant with a capacity of 1.2 GW in the exclusion zone around Chornobyl nuclear power plant (NPP) offers a modular concept of building eight 150 MW substations. “We understand that the north of Kyiv region is not the best…
Antonov State Enterprise (Kyiv) saw an 85.43% rise in net profit in 2017 under Ukrainian accounting standards, to UAH 330.22 million. According to a financial report for 2017 posted on the company’s website, net revenue grew by 66.4%, to UAH 6.052 billion. Antonov is the leading Ukrainian developer and manufacturer of aircraft, a recognized world…
Ukraine in January-February exported 15.45 thousand tons of eggs, up 1.9-fold YoY. The State Fiscal Service of Ukraine (SFS) informs that in monetary terms egg exports totaled $14.97 million compared to $6.99 million in January-February 2017. The main importers of Ukrainian eggs are the United Arab Emirates ($5.85 million), Iraq ($3.07 million) and Qatar ($1.27…
The macroeconomic situation in Ukraine remains unstable, vulnerability of the fiscal system in the past years has grown, World Bank Country Director for Belarus, Moldova and Ukraine Satu Kahkonen has said. She said that the vulnerability had increased in the past years, taking into account the fact that government’s expenses grew, as the government increased…