As of March 22, Ukrainian agrarians planted early spring grains and pulses throughout the areas of 471 thousand ha, or 20% of the forecast, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine declared. In particular, agrarians planted spring wheat throughout 12 thousand ha (6%), peas – 122 thousand ha (44%), spring barley – 321…
Officers of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) jointly with Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) have revealed embezzlement of hundreds of millions of hryvnias by officials of municipal corporation Kyivavtodor. The press service of SBU reported that it was established that officials embezzled funds of the national and city budgets provided for construction, maintenance, overhaul and…
A total of UAH 2 billion has already been transferred for road patching repairs this year, but major road maintenance operations will be launched in late March-early April, Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelian has stated at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. “95% of roads are no longer usable and do not…
State-run PrivatBank plans to expand cooperation with the government in providing some social services on the basis of Privat24 platform, PrivatBank Head Oleksandr Shlapak has said. “PrivatBank today is a leader of the so-called ‘digital banking.’ For many years we have been providing services that no country provides. We are trying to convince the government…
Public joint-stock company AvtoKrAZ (Kremenchuk, Poltava region), the sole heavy truck producer in Ukraine, saw a 40% fall in net loss in 2016, to UAH 188.93 million. According to the revised information to the agenda of a general meeting of shareholders scheduled for March 30, uncovered loss as of January 1, 2017 totaled UAH 629.74…
Ukraine in 2016 imported 1.61 billion cubic meters of natural gas for a total of $394 million. Thus, according to the State Statistics Service, the average price of gas imported in January was $244.6 per 1,000 cubic meters against $228.8 in December 2016. Last year Ukraine from counterparties in Switzerland received 744.999 million cubic meters…
On March 11-12, air temperatures became slightly lower than earlier in the month. Cloudy weather dominated the country with almost daily insignificant precipitation occurring all over its territory except for the East. The average daily air temperature was within a range of +2.2 to +7.5 degrees C, i.e. 2.9-6.4 degrees above normal. On the warmest…