Retail trade in Ukraine grew by 8% YoY in January-July, according to the Ukrainian State Statistics Service’s website. Retail turnover increased the most in Zakarpattia, Vinnytsia, Odessa, Sumy, Mykolaiv, Cherkasy, and Lviv regions – by 21%, 17.7%, 12.8%, 10.8%, 10.6%, 9.5% and 9.5%, respectively. Retail trade in July alone rose by 6.7% against June, while…
Ukraine International Airlines (UIA, Kyiv), the country’s largest air carrier, intends to launch long-haul flights to India and Canada in summer 2018. According to the press service of the company, the matter concerns flights to Delhi and Toronto to be performed four and three times a week respectively. As reported, the commission of the State…
On August 22, Ukraine and Israel will hold the tenth meeting of the joint Ukrainian-Israeli Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation in Kyiv. This was reported by the press service of the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine. “The tenth meeting of the joint Ukrainian-Israeli Commission on Trade and Economic Cooperation will be held in Kyiv on…
The total loss of Ukrainian solvent banks was estimated at UAH 223 million in January-July, down 41.5-fold YoY, according to the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU). Ukraine’s solvent banks received UAH 1.43 billion in profit over the period under review. According to the NBU, incomes of banks for January-July amounted to UAH 101.624 billion, which…
Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) is conducting a pretrial investigation into a criminal case regarding abuse of office by officials of Ukrspyrt causing large loss to the state. The press service of the PGO said that the investigators had established that officials of Ukrspyrt abused office when holding tenders to procure natural gas for the…
As of today, 600 km of roads in Ukraine have been repaired; the funds have been allocated from the state budget, credit resources, as well as proceeds from the overfulfilment of customs payments, Head of the State Agency of Automobile Roads of Ukraine (Ukravtodor) Slawomir Nowak said at a government meeting. “August 18 was the…
Ukraine should increase the volume of restoration works in Donbas, Ukraine’s Minister of Infrastructure Volodymyr Omelyan has said following his visit to the region. “We should together with the prime minister and the president launch a powerful program to restore infrastructure in Donbas next year: roads, railways, aviation,” he wrote on his Facebook page. The…