The privatization plan for this year includes the sale of 25 large state-owned enterprises (SOE), First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economic Development and Trade Stepan Kubiv has said.

"In 2018, we would offer 25 large enterprises for sale," he said at a meeting of the National Investment Council in Kyiv on Friday.

"Our goal is to attract strategic investors who would be able to modernize production at large industrial enterprises and include them to the global chain of added value," Kubiv said.