- Ryanair is planning to start regular flights from Kharkiv and Odesa, from June 16-17, the Irish budget airline announced on March 26 at a press conference in Kharkiv. Meanwhile, Wizz Air will start flights from Kyiv to Leipzig from July 5, and from Krakow to Kharkiv in August.
- Having won his battle to remain head of Naftogaz, albeit for just a year, Andriy Kobolyev is now facing renewed attempts to undermine his influence on Ukraine’s oil and gas industry.
- Another four regional gas companies owned by Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash have been found guilty of overcharging their customers since November, bringing the total number of culprits to seven.
- Oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, the richest person in Ukraine, remains the sole owner of the country’s telecom giant Ukrtelecom after the State Property Fund lost an appeal in an investment dispute in Kyiv’s Economic Court.
- The retail market is gaining momentum in Ukraine. Over the first two months of the year, retail trade turnover in Ukraine hit $5.5 billion, or 6.8 percent more than during the same period in 2018
- Ukraine International Airlines posted a net loss of almost Hr 2.7 billion (about $100 million) in 2018, or about nine times more than it lost in 2017, Ukrainian media reported on March 25, citing a UIA investor report.
- A new law grants official veteran status to former combatants in a number of Ukrainian irregular nationalist armed groups that were active during World War II and the first decade after the war.
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