The Antonov An-124 Ruslan aircraft has transported generators and transformers to Puerto Rico where thousands of people were left without electricity because of a hurricane. The Americans, who provided equipment, admitted they would not have been able to do this without the Ukrainian plane. In particular, a representative of the U.S. shipping company says there…
The Ukrainian coffee market showed an increase in sales by 3% in natural terms in the period from September 2016 to August 2017, the Nielsen research company has said. According to a press release, during the same period of 2015-2016 coffee sales dropped by 8%. In September 2016 – August 2017 the segment of natural…
Ukrainian airlines, according to the data from the State Aviation Service, transported 8.191 million passengers in January-September, up by 32.2% YoY. According to a report on the agency’s website, international traffic grew by 33.6%, to 7.487 million people. Passenger flows through the airports of Ukraine increased by 30.3% and amounted to 12.578 million people, in…
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman believes that Ukraine and the Republic of Malta should strengthen economic cooperation. He said this during a meeting with President of the Republic of Malta Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca in Kyiv, the governmental portal reported. “We welcome the readiness of our chambers of commerce and industry to establish a bilateral permanent…
Ukraine’s state-owned Ukroboronprom has recently showcased its locally built variant of the AR-15 assault rifle – M4-WAC-47. The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense (MoD) intends to induct the M4-WAC-47 as part of its technical and operational alignment with NATO. The M4-WAC-47 was developed in collaboration with U.S.-based Aeroscraft. Besides 5.56×45 mm NATO rounds, the M4-WAC-47 can…
Ukrainian nuclear power plants (NPPs) produced 209.57 million kWh of electricity on October 16, the press-service of Ukraine’s State Enterprise “National Nuclear Energy Generating Company Energoatom” reports. On October 17, 11 out of 15 power units were functioning at Ukrainian power plants: it was the 59th day of the average planned repair at power unit…
The local budget revenues grew by UAH 31.1 billion (30%) in the nine months of 2017, Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman posted on Facebook. “The local budget revenues grew by UAH 31.1 billion, and the revenues of budgets of the united territorial communities grew by 82.7% and totaled UAH 6.3 billion in the nine months…