Rise of Russian export into EU must be studied - Ukraine’s PM
Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal finds it important to study the question of why the export of Russian goods to the EU has been on the rise after the full-scale invasion.
04 March 2024
Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal finds it important to study the question of why the export of Russian goods to the EU has been on the rise after the full-scale invasion.
The Ukrainian side will later announce the amount of damage caused by the blockade of the Polish-Ukrainian border, but Poland is losing more than Ukraine.
Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Grossi will visit Moscow on Tuesday to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, including to discuss the president’s vision on further operation of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and ways to ensure nuclear safety at the facility.
Belgium is ready to allocate part of the EUR 1.7 billion profit derived from frozen Russian assets for covering Ukraine’s defense needs.
Ukraine's gross domestic product in 2023 grew by 5.6%, and the Cabinet of Ministers expects 5% GDP growth in 2024.
Ukraine can receive a $900 million tranche from the International Monetary Fund in the second half of March.
In January-February 2024, the gambling business in Ukraine paid 370% more taxes to the budget than in the same period last year.
03 March 2024
The situation on Ukraine's border with Poland, where the traffic of trucks has been blocked, has gone beyond economics and morality long ago.
Ukraine will continue to develop the Grain from Ukraine humanitarian program.
02 March 2024
Between February 26 and March 1, 2024, the State Property Fund of Ukraine held 18 privatization auctions, which will raise UAH 219.6 million to the budget.
A European Parliament committee will consider the agreement on a free trade area with Ukraine next week.
A Canadian Senate committee has approved a bill on the ratification of the updated Free Trade Agreement between Canada and Ukraine.
In February 2024, Ukraine shipped 8 million tonnes of goods via its maritime corridor, including 5.2 million tonnes of domestically produced agricultural products.
As part of the recently signed memorandum, London Stock Exchange and TheCityUK will help Ukraine build the capacity of the Investment Promotion Agency.
Gas Transmission System Operator of Ukraine LLC (GTSOU) has paid UAH 5.4 billion as the first part of the dividend amount to the state budget for the past year.
01 March 2024
From now on, the Unity insurance program will cover not only sea transportation of grain and other important food products, but also ships carrying any non-military cargoes.
Polish farmers involved in the ongoing protest rally have put to a halt all cargo traffic at the Shehyni checkpoint on the Ukrainian border.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has said that any plan to confiscate frozen Russian assets to aid Ukraine cannot be seen as a substitute for urgently needed aid to the country.
Japan has endorsed the introduction of new sanctions against 12 individuals and 36 entities connected with Russia in relation to Russian armed aggression against Ukraine.
Spanish retail giant Zara is preparing to reopen the stores in Ukraine that it shut soon after Russia's full-scale invasion of the country.
A meeting of finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the Group of Twenty (G20) countries in Brazil ended without a joint statement due to disagreements over Russia's war in Ukraine and the Hamas-Israel conflict.
The Ukrainian Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Ministry has selected more than 200 promising waste treatment projects across Ukraine. The estimated cost of such projects is about EUR 4 billion.
29 February 2024
Poland will study Latvia's experience in imposing an embargo on imports of agricultural products from Russia and may soon take similar steps.
Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Ruslan Stefanchuk and Marshal of the Senate of the Republic of Poland Małgorzata Kidawa-Błonska discussed the export of Ukrainian agricultural products and the blocking of checkpoints by Polish farmers.
About 2,200 trucks are waiting in line at six checkpoints on the border with Poland.
On February 28, the Council of the European Union approved the launch of the EUR 50 billion Ukraine Facility for 2024-2027.
Hundreds of Western and Russian companies are involved in the Kremlin's illegal schemes to dodge sanctions and ensure the covert supply to Russia of electronic components required for the production of weapons.
As part of grant assistance, with the support of the Ukrainian Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has started the supply of modern equipment required for the operation of reclamation systems.
28 February 2024
Russia is expanding its procurement networks to evade sanctions imposed on the imports of electronics and other products in order to manufacture weapons and fuel the war in Ukraine, to this end actively using intelligence officers stationed abroad, as well as bribing foreign nationals.
The cap on the import of agricultural products from Ukraine to Poland, proposed by Brussels and Kyiv, are "unacceptable" for Warsaw so Poland is eyeing the possibility of temporarily closing the border for Ukrainian products.