Gas stocks in Ukraine’s underground storage facilities have declined by 22.2% or 3.272 billion cubic meters to 11.460 billion cubic meters since October 13, 2016 when the current heating season began, through January 8. Ukraine withdrew 86.33 million cubic meters from underground storage on January 8, and a total of 533.38 million cubic meters in…
The Individuals’ Deposit Guarantee Fund tentatively earned around 3 billion UAH from selling property of insolvent banks in 2016, director of the consolidated sale and asset management department of the fund Yulia Bereschenko has said. “We received around 3 billion UAH. We are summarizing the results of the year, as it takes a couple of…
DCH Group of businessman Oleksandr Yaroslavsky officially announced that Kharkiv Tractor Plant started operating on January 6, the press service of the group has reported. “Today is the joyful day in the history of Kharkiv Tractor Plant: we have a chance of starting the processes required for the launch of production”, the press service said…
Russia’s Gazprom increased an application for Russian gas transit via the Ukrainian gas transport system (GTS) by 10% compared to first days of January, to 278.9 million cubic meters, spokesman for the pubic joint-stock company Ukrtransgaz Maksym Beliavsky has said. “By the way, Gazprom sent the expanded application for transit to Europe – 278.9 million…
In 2016 Ukraine exported $152.063 million worth of electricity, in particular $14.278 million in December 2016. According to the State Fiscal Service, electricity delivered to Hungary amounted to $119.317 million last year, to Poland to $32.392 million, Moldova to $347,000, and other countries to $7,000. Thus, in money terms exports of Ukrainian electricity last year…
Fight against poverty is the biggest challenge for the Ukrainian government, Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman said. “What is our biggest challenge now? The biggest challenge is the fight against poverty. We must overcome the poverty in our large country”, Groysman said. The head of government stressed that “on the one hand, we need…
Ukraine’s Finance Ministry at the end of 2016 additionally injected 107 billion UAH into PrivatBank (Dnipro), Fitch Ratings has said in a press release. At the end of 2016 Fitch Ratings downgraded ratings of the financial institution. Fitch said that in December 2016 the Finance Ministry paid 107 billion UAH for shares of PrivatBank. The…