Brake failure was behind the tram accident in Odesa, director of the municipal electric transport enterprise Odesmiskelektrotrans Svitlana Kobylianska told Interfax-Ukraine on Thursday.
The Boryspil International Airport state enterprise has received a further tranche of UAH 72.793 million of a credit from the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC).
Metinvest Group, the largest mining and smelting company in Ukraine, has decided to increase its three-year pre-export credit from $300 million to $700 million, according to a company press release posted on its Web site
The opposition government of Ukraine regrets that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has allocated a credit of $15 billion to Ukraine and hopes that the fund will reconsider this decision.
Head of the Ukrainian hydrometeorological center Mykola Kulbida has forecast that temperatures could reach a maximum of 40-42 degrees Celsius across most of Ukraine in August.
A tram on route 15 in Odesa suffered brake failure on a hill and overturned on Balkivska Street, crushing a car and killing its driver, the Odesa police department has told Interfax-Ukraine.
A nun has been killed and eight people injured as a result of an explosion at the Intercession Church (subordinate to Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate) in Zaporizhia on Wednesday.
A three-way meeting between Ukraine, Russia and the European Union could make it clear whether it is possible to use pipelines running through the south of Ukraine as an alternative to the South Stream project, European Commissioner on Energy Günther Oettinger said during a meeting with...
The European Union expects that Ukraine could joint the energy community in six months or a year, Interfax-Ukraine has learned from Vitaliy Lukyanenko, the press secretary of the Ukrainian premier.
The Ukrainian government plans to earmark a portion of a $15 billion loan, which it hopes to receive from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), for paying off debt to VTB at the end of the year, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Sergiy Tigipko said in an interview with the newspaper Delo.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has charged Ukrainian Agriculture Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk with making the Agrarian Fund work actively to ensure there are high purchase prices for grain from the new harvest.
Vice Prime Minister on Economic Issues Sergiy Tigipko has said he is confident there will be a positive decision from the board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the allocation of a credit to Ukraine.
The Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kyiv Patriarchate (UOC-KP) is hoping for a dialog with the Ukrainian Orthodox Church subordinated to Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), despite the unconstructive position of the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) stated at its meeting in Kyiv...
The issue of bonds to pay the state debt for VAT reimbursements will start, as planned earlier, from August 1, Ukraine Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said.
The total wage arrears in Ukraine as of July 1, 2010 are down by 5% compared to June 1, 2010, but have grown by 21.6% since the start of the year, to UAH 1.792 billion, the State Statistics Committee reported.
Ukraine and Bosnia and Herzegovina have drawn up a draft agreement on a visa-free regime for their citizens, the press secretary of the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine, Oleksandr Dikusarov, said at a briefing in Kyiv on Tuesday.
Mriya Ltd. (Odesa) is intending by 2014 to construct the first five-star hotel in Odesa for about $100 million, the architect of the project, Volodymyr Hlazyrin, has told Interfax-Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych is continuing to work actively while on holiday in Crimea, Head of the Presidential Administration Serhiy Liovochkin has said.
Ship repair plants in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol are ready to repair ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, Chairman of the Crimean Council of Ministers Vasyl Dzharty has said.
A group of 83 Ukrainian pilgrims, who spent four days at the border between France and Switzerland after a breakdown of their bus, have returned to Ukraine.
No Ukrainian have been among the killed and injured in a stampede at the Love Parade dance music festival in the German city of Duisburg, the Ukrainian foreign ministry told Interfax-Ukraine.
Tariffs for housing and utilities services will increase at the beginning of heating season in Ukraine on October 15, Ukrainian Housing and Utilities Minister Yuriy Khivrych told the Segodnia newspaper.