Ukraine harvests 37.4M t of grains, oilseeds
As of September 22, 2023, Ukrainian farmers have already harvested 29.8 million tonnes of grains and legumes and 7.649 million tonnes of oilseeds.
23 September 2023
As of September 22, 2023, Ukrainian farmers have already harvested 29.8 million tonnes of grains and legumes and 7.649 million tonnes of oilseeds.
Russia has already started the next stage of energy terror against Ukraine, but we are ready.
A German company that was previously nationalized due to its ties to Russia has resumed trading liquefied natural gas (LNG) with Russia.
22 September 2023
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signed an updated Free Trade Agreement.
Ukraine's needs for fast recovery remain at the level of $15 billion.
In the 2023/2024 marketing year (MY) (from July 1 to September 22, 2023), Ukraine exported 6.038 million tonnes of grains and legumes.
Three more ships are moving along the temporary corridor toward Ukrainian ports. They will be loaded with agricultural products and ore.
Ukraine has received the eighth tranche of EUR 1.5 billion as part of the large-scale macro-financial assistance (MFA) from the European Union for 2023.
Another ship with grain has left the Ukrainian port via a temporary corridor. This is the second ship to break through the Russian blockade of the Black Sea.
Warsaw hopes that Kyiv will not impose an embargo on the import of Polish agricultural products to Ukraine.
21 September 2023
The cargo ship Resilient Africa arrived off Turkey's Bosphorus Strait on Thursday, the first vessel loaded with grain from Ukraine to sail in and out of the Black Sea using a temporary corridor.
The ministers of agriculture of Slovakia and Ukraine have agreed to create a grain trade licensing system that will allow them to lift the ban on imports of four Ukrainian goods to Slovakia.
The Ministry of Finance of Ukraine has attracted a USD 1.25 billion grant from the United States through the World Bank's PEACE in Ukraine Trust Fund.
Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine Mykola Solskyi discussed the issue of the export of Ukrainian agricultural products with Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development of Poland Robert Telus.
The three EU countries that have imposed national bans on the export of Ukrainian agricultural products - Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria - are ready to consider the mechanism of joint verification and approval of supplies proposed by Ukraine.
The National Joint Stock Company Naftogaz of Ukraine has come out of default.
Ukraine’s National Agency for Corruption Prevention (NACP) has added two leading German manufacturers of high-precision machine tools, Spinner and DMG Mori, to the list of international sponsors of Russia's war.
The Government of Poland believes a grain-related dispute with Ukraine should not be called a trade war between the two countries.
20 September 2023
President Volodymyr Zelensky met with U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine's Economic Recovery Penny Pritzker in New York. The parties discussed the support for the most promising branches of the Ukrainian economy.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has called on Poland to put emotions aside and switch to a constructive dialogue on grain exports.
A total of 822 Ukrainian nuclear workers remain at the temporarily occupied Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant. Another 2,083 ZNPP employees are not allowed to work.
Ukraine may lose up to EUR 600 million by the end of 2023 if some EU countries extend restrictions on imports of Ukrainian agricultural products.
Head of the State Agency for Restoration of Ukraine Mustafa Nayyem and Head of Implementation at the Agency Vadym Nozdria discussed financing critical infrastructure restoration projects in Ukraine with representatives of the European Investment Bank (EIB).
Ukraine is interested in expanding access to the Baltic ports, namely through the Rail Baltica project.
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has endorsed amendments to the Law of Ukraine ‘On the State Budget of Ukraine for 2023’ regarding the financing of the defense and security sector in the first reading.
Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro Kuleba and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi have met and discussed the situation at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) and further cooperation.
Poland proposes to ban the import of diamonds and liquefied natural gas from the Russian Federation within the next 12th package of EU sanctions on Russia.
In order to improve access to Ukrainian grain and strengthen global food security, Ukraine proposes setting up hubs for millions of tonnes of grain in African countries and other sensitive areas.
19 September 2023
The Government of Ukraine will provide the EU and neighboring countries with customs data on the export of certain goods and collect data on the destination of shipments in the e-queue system.
The government approved a new procedure for the export of corn, rapeseed, sunflower, and wheat, according to which it a license is required from the Ministry of Economy with the approval of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy in order to supply these crops to five EU member states bordering Ukraine.