A new batch of five more tanks from Ukraine will be delivered late this month as the Royal Thai Army has so far received 31 of the Ukraine-made T84 Oplot tanks, according to Bangkok Post. Ukraine was contracted to supply a battalion of forty-nine T84 Oplot tanks worth 7.2 billion baht in 2011 but was…
Kyiv International Airport (Zhuliany) has informed that the most popular international directions in October were Minsk, Dubai, Budapest, Ankara, and Warsaw. “The most popular international directions in October were Minsk (Belarus), Dubai (UAE), Budapest (Hungary), Ankara (Turkey), Warsaw (Poland). Among domestic flights, Odessa, Zaporizhzhia and Lviv are in the lead,” according to a press release…
Ukraine’s large and medium-sized plants produced 10.1 KMT of mayonnaise in September, up by 2% MoM (9.9 KMT) and by 4.1% YoY. The reason was the seasonal factor. Overall, this year’s mayonnaise production volumes have been varying around the 2016 level. Thus, the Ukrainian fat-and-oil industry made 88.2 KMT of this product in January-September, or…
The National Nuclear Generating Company Energoatom and Holtec (the United States) have started building a centralized spent nuclear fuel storage facility in the Chornobyl zone. “The project to build the centralized spent nuclear fuel storage facility in combination with the diversification of supplies of fresh nuclear fuel is an outpost of Ukraine against the hybrid…
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has allowed Ukrainian businessman Sergiy Tigipko to buy a 99.9% stake in Russian Sberbank’s Ukrainian subsidiary VS Bank, based in Lviv, according to the regulator’s website. “The National Bank of Ukraine has allowed Ukrainian citizen Sergiy Leonidovych Tigipko to buy 99.9% of VS Bank’s charter capital through indirect major…
Ukrenergo in January-September increased transmission of electricity through the backbone power grids by 5% (by 4.042 billion kWh) compared to the same period in 2016, to 84.28 billion kWh. According to a report posted on the company’s website, the cost of electricity transmission services rose by 25.8% over the nine months (by UAH 1.231 billion),…
The Ukrainian State Food Safety and Consumer Protection Service says 67 Ukrainian honey producers have been licensed to supply their produce to foreign markets, according to the service’s press office. “Sixty-seven business entities engaged in the production and/or storage of honey and licensed to export their products outside Ukraine have been included in the state…