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23 September 2022
At a meeting with Prime Minister of the Republic of Iraq Mustafa Al-Kadhimi, Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal emphasized the need for international pressure on Russia to continue the "grain initiative" and Ukrainian grain exports from the Black Sea ports.
Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal has discussed financial support and reconstruction of Ukraine with World Bank Managing Director of Operations Axel van Trotsenburg and World Bank Vice President Anna Bjerde.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Ukraine is able to provide opportunities for the construction of capacities for the production of tens of millions of tonnes of pure “green” and cheap ammonia.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has stated that any company currently operating in Russia helps the aggressor state to wage terror.
Over 200 Ukrainian businesses have relocated to the Lviv region as part of the business relocation program, and 144 of them are already working.
22 September 2022
Energy Minister of Ukraine Herman Galushchenko during a meeting with U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm discussed sanctions against the Russian State Corporation Rosatom.
Ukraine has already sent 120,000 tonnes of grain as part of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), namely to Ethiopia, Yemen and Afghanistan.
A total of 349 energy infrastructure facilities have been damaged in Ukraine since the Russian full-scale invasion started, including 11 combined heat and power plants (CHPPs) and three thermal power plants (TPPs).
Ukraine wants to involve companies, investments and technologies from all over the world in the country’s post-war reconstruction projects.
A total of 192 vessels have left the Ukrainian sea ports since the so-called ‘grain initiative’ was launched.
EU foreign ministers have agreed to prepare new sanctions against Russia and increase weapons supplies to Ukraine.
21 September 2022
The United Kingdom is ready to provide Ukraine with financial support for the purchase of natural gas and to promote the development of Ukrainian gas production.
The EU-Ukraine Solidarity Lanes and the UN-led Black Sea Grain Initiative have helped partially alleviate the severity of the global food crisis and deliver Ukrainian grain to countries most in need - in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
On September 21, eight vessels carrying Ukrainian agricultural products departed from Ukraine's Black Sea ports of Odesa, Chornomorsk and Pivdennyi through the "grain corridor."
20 September 2022
On the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal and Federal Chancellor of Austria Karl Nehammer discussed the current situation in Ukraine and the issue of food security.
The IMF mission will start work on a new special program with Ukraine in October 2022.
Transatlantic Task Force for Ukraine (TTFU), the organization uniting influential activists, experts, and civil society leaders, has turned to U.S. Congress with an open letter, calling on legislators to speed up the process of approving a new assistance package to Ukraine worth over $11 billion.
Ukraine's state-owned railway company Ukrzaliznytsia and Germany's largest rail operator Deutsche Bahn have signed a memorandum of understanding pledging support and cooperation in international freight transport.
On September 20, 2022, the Council of the European Union adopted the decision to provide EUR 5 billion of additional macro-financial assistance to Ukraine.
As part of the ‘grain initiative’, a total of 177 vessels loaded with 4.1 million tonnes of agricultural products have already left the Ukrainian sea ports.
19 September 2022
Between September 12, 2022 and September 18, 2022, Ukraine exported 1.1 million tonnes of agricultural products via the Odesa region’s ports, which is twofold higher compared to the previous week.
Ukraine-based Center for Defense Reforms has presented the report “The main methods of countering sanctions, applied by the Government of the Russian Federation to minimize negative economic consequences.”
Since the Grain Corridor deal was enforced, 23 bulkers carrying a total of 640,000 tonnes of Ukrainian grain have departed from Ukrainian ports to Africa.
In 2022, Ukraine fell short of up to 10 million tonnes of potential crops due to the capture of its territories by Russia.
Farmers have harvested 19.2 million tonnes of wheat this year, which is more than twice the volume of annual domestic consumption.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has discussed the possibility of raising public and private investments in Ukraine with Larry Fink, CEO of the world’s largest investment company BlackRock.
Between February 24, 2022 and September 1, 2022, the total amount of cash expenditures from Ukraine’s state budget general fund reached UAH 1.2 trillion.
On September 19, 2022, six more vessels loaded with Ukrainian-produced agricultural crops left Odesa Region’s ports.
18 September 2022
Swiss lawmaker, member of the Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee Nicolas Walder, commenting on the issue of selective disconnection of Russian banks from the SWIFT system (as of today, only seven banks have been sanctioned), said that all Russian banks should be subjected to such disconnection, while Russia sanctions in general should be further strengthened.
Eight more vessels have left Ukraine’s Odesa Port, Chornomorsk Port and Pivdennyi Port via the so-called ‘grain corridor’. Two more ships are waiting in line.