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Sunday, 24 November 2024, 05:56
In just two months, Ukraine’s economy lost over EUR 1.5 billion due to strikes that blocked truck traffic across checkpoints on Ukraine’s borders with its western neighbors, members of the EU.
EU Ministers of agriculture will discuss at the EU Council on Tuesday the impact of the export of Ukrainian farm products on European markets.
Germany's total contributions to the Energy Support Fund for Ukraine have already reached EUR 225 million. The country also sent 89 cargoes of aid to the energy sector to Ukraine.
Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal of Ukraine discussed with his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk the establishment of four more crossing checkpoints on the border between the two countries.
In December 2023, Ukraine’s ports exported more agricultural products than at any point since Russia's invasion, almost certainly due to the reopening of Ukraine's main Black Sea ports and the establishment of a unilateral shipping export channel.
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) sold $531 million on the interbank foreign exchange market over the past week.
22 January 2024
Checkpoints are restoring capacity after the blockade was suspended, and about 5,000 trucks have already left for Poland.
The Ministry of Economy plans to transform the program "Affordable Loans 5-7-9%" so that loans are issued to businesses for investment purposes or to businesses from the de-occupied territories.
In January 2024, the organizers of auctions via the Prozorro.Sale system raised almost UAH 5 million. Revenues of UAH 462 million are still expected.
In 2023, the Deposit Guarantee Fund of Ukraine sold bankrupt banks’ assets worth more than UAH 4.9 billion at auctions held via the Prozorro.Sale system.
21 January 2024
On Sunday evening, Ukraine’s major online banking service, Monobank, faced another major DDoS attack after another such disruption was tackled on January 19.
As of October 2023, Ukraine reduced its supplies of agricultural products to the European Union almost to the level of pre-war 2021, although it remained among the top three suppliers of such products to the EU, and at the same time significantly increasing consumption of European agricultural exports.
The Ukrainian government has approved a mechanism for distributing additional subventions for territorial communities, with a total amount of UAH 33.4 billion.
20 January 2024
More than 7,700 new businesses were registered in the Chernivtsi region last year, which is almost 2,000 more than in 2022.
Ukraine has steadily passed the first half of the heating season and has sufficient resources for its successful completion.
Ukraine’s Pension Fund has laid down UAH 48.1 billion on pension payments as of January 19.
The European External Action Service presented to member states a proposal regarding the reform of the Ukraine Military Aid Fund, whose operation has been repeatedly discussed by EU governments but is yet to be formally agreed upon.
The movement of trucks through the Porubne-Siret checkpoint from the Romanian side has been completely unblocked.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Poland has confirmed that the ban on Ukrainian imports will remain in effect until appropriate protective mechanisms are developed at the EU level.
19 January 2024
Ukraine offers European companies to store up to 10 billion cubic meters of gas in our gas storage facilities.
The blocking of truck traffic in front of the Vicovu de Sus checkpoint, opposite the Ukrainian checkpoint of Krasnoilsk, has been stopped.
The queue on the territory of Romania towards Ukraine in the direction of the Porubne checkpoint is about 400 trucks.
Ukraine and Switzerland will conduct joint missions for domestic businesses to explore opportunities for Swiss companies to invest in the country and opportunities for Ukrainian companies to expand in Switzerland.
After a meeting with his Latvian and Estonian counterparts, Lithuanian Minister of Transport and Communications Marius Skuodis said that the Baltic states support the inclusion of Russian and Belarusian grain in the EU sanctions package.
18 January 2024
Romania's government unveiled a first package of measures to aid farmers and truckers whose widening protests against high business costs have hit a border crossing with Ukraine and elsewhere in the country.
The situation in Ukraine's financial system is stable, with social benefits being provided in full.
Romanian farmers have begun a blockade of the Dyakovo-Halmeu checkpoint, and there is no truck traffic at all.
On the Polish-Ukrainian border, traffic through checkpoints is not limited and is quite intense.
As a result of the blocking of checkpoints on the Romanian border, only a few vehicles a day pass through Porubne and Krasnoilsk.