Ukraine intends to take steps to increase trade with Azerbaijan to $1 billion, a source in the Ukrainian government told Trend.

SOCAR Energy Ukraine (a subsidiary of Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR) plans to greatly increase natural gas supplies to Ukraine, the company told Trend.

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has sent a congratulatory letter to his Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko.

Ukrainian acting Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Maxim Martynyuk has called for more trade relations with Iran in various spheres, particularly between the food industries, IRNA news agency reported on Aug. 15.

Azerbaijan and Ukraine can bring mutual trade to $ 1 billion in the near future, the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine told Trend on August 2.

The Congress of Azerbaijanis of Ukraine and the United Diaspora of Azerbaijanis of Ukraine have decided to merge, and a working group has been created to complete this process from the legal point of view, Azerbaijan’s State Committee for Work with the Diaspora said in a message.

Azerbaijan is interested in implementing new projects in the field of culture with Ukraine and is ready to support it. Tourism and Culture

Ukraine plans to purchase diesel locomotives of manufactured in Kazakhstan, the press service of "Kazakhstan Temir Zholy" Railway Company reported.

Azerbaijan’s Trade House will open in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, June 22.

Azerbaijan exported oil worth $195 million to Ukraine in January-May of 2018, Ukrainian media reported referring to the data from the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine.