Founded in 1918
Thursday, 07 November 2024, 10:36
17 November 2022
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has welcomed an agreement by all parties to extend the Black Sea grain deal to facilitate Ukraine's agricultural exports from its southern Black Sea ports.
Ukraine, the United Nations and Turkey agreed at a meeting in Istanbul on November 17 to extend the Black Sea Grain Initiative for a further 120 days.
Emergency rolling blackouts will continue as the situation with power supply in Kyiv region remains complicated.
16 November 2022
On November 15, 2022, Ukraine’s Khmelnytskyi Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) lost all access to the electricity grid due to military attacks in the country, forcing it to temporarily rely on diesel generators for back-up power.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and Vice President of the World Bank for Europe and Central Asia Anna Bjerde have held a meeting in Kyiv. The parties discussed support for Ukraine’s 2023 state budget and the implementation of joint programs related to energy, transport and medicine.
Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, Mykola Solskyi, and Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Ukraine, Bartosz Cichocki, discussed the tools and directions for implementing the Grain from Ukraine program.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has discussed with Anna Bjerde, Vice President of the World Bank for Europe and Central Asia, the preparation of projects related to the restoration of Ukrainian transport, energy infrastructure and health care sector.
The NORD VIND, a ship carrying Ukrainian wheat for Ethiopia, is moving along a "grain corridor" as part of the Grain from Ukraine initiative.
Valeriy Patskan, the chair of Ukraine’s Accounting Chamber, has tendered his resignation.
At the initiative of Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko, a high-level extraordinary meeting of the International Energy Advisory Council (IEAC) was held to consider providing additional power equipment to Ukraine.
15 November 2022
Russian massive missile attacks have caused damage to high-voltage power substations, combined heat and power plants (CHPP) all over Ukraine. Blackouts are taking place across nearly all regions.
At an EU foreign ministerial in Brussels, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia, Urmas Reinsalu, proposed to change the model of support to Ukraine, increasing it fivefold from 0.2 to 1% of GDP.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said at the G20 summit that the Russian-Ukrainian war has had a huge impact on the international order and that the group of the world's biggest economies must tackle it.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has offered partners to expand the grain export initiative to Ukraine’s Mykolaiv Port and Olvia Port in the Mykolaiv region.
Rolling blackouts will be applied in almost the entire territory of the left bank of Ukraine and Zhytomyr region on Tuesday, November 15.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will in the coming weeks send nuclear safety and security missions to three operating nuclear power plants in Ukraine as well as to the country’s Chornobyl site.
14 November 2022
Oleksiy Chernyshov, Chairman of the Board of NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine, and Gavin Gray, Chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission for Ukraine, discussed the impact of the war on the Ukrainian gas sector and a new program of cooperation.
Ukraine’s economic losses are expected to reach 33-35% of gross domestic product (GDP) due to the war unleashed by Russia, according to the estimates of the Ukrainian Finance Ministry.
The Ukrainian Finance Ministry expects to raise $7.8 billion from international partners before the end of 2022.
Over the past two days, 12 bulkers carrying 400,000 tonnes of agricultural products left the ports of Odesa, Chornomorsk, and Pivdennyi for the countries of Africa, Asia, and Europe.
UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly today announces the first tranche of UK funding to the Ukraine Energy Support Fund.
13 November 2022
Rolling blackouts will be applied in Kyiv and eight regions across Ukraine on Monday, November 14.
Russian invaders have stolen about 100,000 tonnes of sunflower seeds and corn, harvesters, tractors and other equipment owned by Ukraine’s agricultural company UkrLandFarming in the Kherson region.
As part of the UN’s COP27 Climate Conference, U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry and Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko announced cooperation on a Ukraine Clean Fuels from Small Modular Reactors (SMR) pilot project.
12 November 2022
In the ports of Odesa and Chornomorsk, two bulk carriers are being loaded with wheat intended for the countries that are on the brink of famine.
Core inflation in annual terms is expected to accelerate to 21.5% in October, while remaining under the regulator’s control as its current dynamics correspond to the trajectory laid down by the National Bank in its outlook.
It would be wrong to set time limits for the operation of the grain corridor: the longer the work lasts, the more efficient it will be.
The Netherlands will provide extra EUR 110 million to Ukraine to help with energy supply this winter.
11 November 2022
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine delivered a video address on the implementation of the European Union's "Solidarity Lanes" initiative.
The European Commission, Czechia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Republic of Moldova, Ukraine, the European Investment Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the World Bank Group signed a joint declaration providing for nearly EUR 1 billion for supporting “Solidarity Lanes” on the borders between Ukraine and the EU member states.