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  • IKEA to open first Ukrainian store in Kyiv Sweden's IKEA, the largest furniture and household goods retailer in the world, has officially announced the opening of a first store in Ukraine in the city store format in the shopping…
  • Agrarian Policy Ministry improves grain forecast The Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry of Ukraine has improved grain harvest forecast by 5% up to 63.1m tonnes in 2018, its first deputy head Maksym Martynyuk has said on Facebook.…
  • Premier says minimum wage to reach 4,170 hryvnyas Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said that the minimum wage in Ukraine will increase by 12% up to 4,170 hryvnyas as of 1 January 2019. Currently, it is 3,723 hryvnyas, or 131…
  • Ukraine's treasury balance up to 27bn hryvnyas The balance of the single treasury account has reached 27.085bn hryvnyas (0.95bn dollars at the current exchange rate) by early September 2018, the State Treasury Service has said…
  • PayPal enables international transfers to Ukraine PayPal has now made it possible to transfer money to Ukraine, Creative Quarter CEO Ilia Kenigshtein has said on Facebook. For now, remittances will be limited to payments from the…
  • Ukraine's GDP grows by 3.6% in Q2 In April-June 2018, Ukraine's GDP grew by 3.6% in comparison with the same period of the past year. Compared with January-March, there was a 0.9% growth (considering seasonal factor…
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  • IMF mission to come to Kyiv on 6 September The mission of the International Monetary Fund will work in Ukraine from 6 to 19 September. Based on its results, Ukraine may receive the next, fifth tranche under the Extended Fund…
  • July pensions said delayed by irregular unified social contributions The Pension Fund has said that in July 2018 pension payments had to be rescheduled because of cash shortages caused by the irregular receipt of unified social contributions, which…
  • Ukraine takes small privatization online Small privatization in Ukraine can now be done on the ProZorro.Prodazhi platform online. According to the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, the first bid is a two-storied…
  • Ukraine president vetoes bill on wood smuggling prevention President Petro Poroshenko has vetoed bill No 5495, which would limit the annual rough timber logging to 25m cu.m. during the moratorium on rough wood exports and introduce criminal…
  • Dniproazot resumes production of water treatment agent The Dniproazot plant has decided to resume the production of liquid chlorine, according to its website. Preparations for putting chlorine workshops back in operation have been completed…
  • Groysman expects quick solution to liquid chlorine deficit Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman is expecting the Dniproazot company (Kamyanske, Dnipropetrovsk Region) to resume the production of liquid chlorine used for water treatment as soon…
  • New outbreaks of African swine fever registered in five regions The State Service for Food Safety and Customer Protection registered seven cases of African swine fever in Odesa, Kherson, Cherkasy, Rivne and Sumy regions from 9 to 16 July, according…
  • Renault may open factory in Ukraine – PM Renault is considering opening a factory in Ukraine, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman has said after a meeting with the French car maker's management. "We are interested in developing…
  • National Bank keeps inflation at 8.9%, ups discount rate to 17.5% The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has kept the inflation forecast 8.9% by the end of 2018. The inflation forecast for 2019 is 5.8%, followed by 5% for 2020. The NBU still expects…