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24 June 2024
The EU Council of Ministers adopted the 14th package of sanctions against Russia, which provides for measures against Russia’s "shadow" fleet of tankers and introduces tougher restrictions on Russian flights in the EU airspace.
In the past few days, two substations were damaged in the temporarily occupied city of Enerhodar, where most of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) staff live.
In the 14th package of sanctions against Russia, the EU Council has banned European parties, NGOs and think tanks from receiving any funding of Russian origin.
EU foreign ministers, who met today in Luxembourg in the format of the EU Council of Ministers, adopted the 14th package of sanctions against Russia in relation to its aggression against Ukraine, which, in particular, puts further pressure on Russia’s energy sector and contains measures to prevent attempts to evade European sanctions.
23 June 2024
China and the EU have agreed to start negotiations on the planned introduction of EU tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles.
Since its launch in 2020, ProZorro.Sale has already held 35,000 auctions for the lease of state and municipal property, which annually bring up to UAH 200,000 to the organisers.
Ukraine ranks second among the countries of Central and Eastern Europe in terms of the number of companies operating in the field of artificial intelligence - 243 companies and about 5200 specialists.
Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, the European Union has been the largest donor of direct budgetary assistance; in the first five months of 2024 alone, financial support from the EU accounted for more than half of all funds raised.
22 June 2024
On Sunday, June 23, hourly power outage schedules will be applied in all regions of Ukraine from 19:00 to 23:00.
Finance ministers of the EU member states considered practical issues regarding the implementation of the G7 decision to provide Ukraine with a $50 billion loan at the expense of frozen Russian assets, and will continue their work in July so that Ukraine can receive the money by the end of the year.
Ukrzaliznytsia has already exported 1260 wagons with Ukrainian agricultural products at a discount.
In total, more than 30 projects are being developed in Ukraine to launch new wind generation, and they are at different stages of readiness.
The Russian army launched the eighth massive combined missile and drone strike targeting Ukraine’s critical energy infrastructure.
In addition to human losses, as well as the economic damage caused by Putin's war in Ukraine, Russian aggression also entailed serious consequences for the global economy, becoming a turning point that will affect the world in the future.
The Cabinet of Ministers has decided to allocate UAH 1 billion as a subvention to the Ukrainian regions for the purchase of school buses.
Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine has attracted $85.4 billion in international financial assistance.
In January-April 2024, enterprises in the Poltava region increased their exports by 47% - to more than USD 730 million.
Starting from 22 June 2024, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) will introduce a ban on the use of credit funds for gambling.
21 June 2024
Since the beginning of the year, the Defence Procurement Agency of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine has purchased drones worth UAH 2.5 billion through Prozorro.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has approved a bill on the unified information system of the social sphere.
Since the start of the full-scale invasion, the European Union has been the largest donor of direct budgetary assistance; in the first five months of 2024 alone, EU financial support accounted for more than half of all funds raised.
The government has allocated almost UAH 2.6 million to the Ministry of Veterans Affairs to pay one-time financial assistance to relatives of volunteers killed in combat.
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a draft agreement between Ukraine and the European Space Agency on the renewal of a similar agreement of 2008.
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the procedure for using the funds of the State Fund for Decarbonization and Energy Efficient Transformation.
Ukraine’s Ministry of Finance is calling on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to blacklist Russia at its upcoming plenary session on June 23.
In January-May 2024, PJSC Ukrnafta received UAH 260 million from non-fuel sales, which is twice as much as in the same period last year.
Naftogaz Group has put into operation a gas well with a daily flow rate of 439,000 cubic meters of natural gas.
Ukraine is introducing a number of programs to help businesses ensure energy independence and restore at least some of the capacities destroyed by Russia by winter.
As of June 20, 2024, the Pension Fund of Ukraine allocated UAH 52 billion for pension payments for the current month.
On Friday, June 21, oil prices are falling slightly after rising in the previous session due to data on the decline in US stocks.