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13 December 2025
In November 2025, Ukraine’s real gross domestic product (GDP) growth accelerated to 5.3%, compared with 2.3% in October. The main drivers were agriculture, domestic trade, construction, and manufacturing.
12 December 2025
Ukraine and the United States have established a joint working group to develop a rapid economic action plan as part of the process to ensure a sustainable and fair peace for Ukraine.
The Central Bank of the Russian Federation has announced that it has filed a lawsuit against the Belgian clearing and settlement institution Euroclear over frozen Russian assets.
EU ambassadors have agreed to indefinitely freeze Russia’s sovereign assets, removing the main obstacle to providing Ukraine with a “reparations loan” worth €210 billion.
As of the morning of December 12, customers in the Odesa, Donetsk, and Kharkiv regions were left without power due to Russian attacks.
In November 2025, 11,005 battery electric vehicles (BEVs) were sold on the domestic market, compared with 3,742 units purchased by Ukrainians a year earlier.
11 December 2025
Ukraine will soon receive around EUR 2.3 billion in funding after the Council of the EU today adopted a decision on the sixth regular disbursement of support under the EU's Ukraine Facility.
The amount of international aid is currently sufficient to maintain adequate reserves and emission-free financing of the budget deficit, but uncertainty about its future parameters remains.
Ministries and regional military administrations must ensure the availability of alternative power sources for all critical infrastructure facilities; shorter power outages are expected as soon as this weekend.
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has kept its key policy rate at 15.5%.
Russia's massive airstrikes last Saturday caused major disruptions to Ukraine's power system and to the external electricity supply of three nuclear power plants, forcing reductions in reactor output and temporary shutdowns of several units.
Since the start of the full-scale war, courts in frontline regions have issued 311 rulings ordering Russia to pay UAH 386.03 billion in compensation to Ukrainian companies.
10 December 2025
Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko has announced that audits in the defense sector will start in the 20s of December, with the first interim results expected in January.
On Wednesday, December 10, Ukraine is importing electricity from Europe every hour of the day.
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is trying to portray the Russian economy as able to support a protracted war in Ukraine — likely to buttress the ongoing Russian cognitive warfare effort falsely claiming that a Russian victory is inevitable.
09 December 2025
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko held talks with U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, during which the parties discussed Ukraine’s reconstruction, cooperation in the energy sector, and sanctions against Russia.
Over the past five years, Ukraine has seized 68 vessels of the Russian shadow fleet, including three vessels seized from December 2024 to the present.
Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko chaired a coordination meeting focused on restoring damaged energy infrastructure.
Japan has declined the European Union's proposal to join Brussels' initiative to use frozen Russian state assets to provide financial support to Ukraine and, in particular, to make use of the EU's work in this area.
A Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) export plant has sent its first shipment to China since the U.S. sanctions were imposed in January, the latest sign of growing energy cooperation between Beijing and Moscow.
08 December 2025
The Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) program, under which NATO member states finance the purchase of weapons for Ukraine, requires USD 15 billion per year.
In November, Russia lost its position as the largest supplier of oil to China, overtaken by Saudi Arabia, Oman and Angola.
The EU Council has approved the European Defence Industry Programme (EDIP), within which €300 million is allocated to a special Ukraine Support Instrument aimed at modernizing and strengthening Ukraine’s defence-industrial sector.
On December 8, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk signed the Law “On the State Budget of Ukraine for 2026.”
Leaders of both chambers of the U.S. Congress have agreed on the final text of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which includes $800 million in military assistance for Ukraine over the next two years.
Pro-Kremlin analysts are publicly acknowledging serious structural problems in Russia’s banking sector for the first time.
07 December 2025
Russians struck energy infrastructure facilities in the Poltava region, particularly in the city of Kremenchuk, and the Chernihiv region last night.
China is consolidating its position as Mongolia’s key economic partner, rapidly expanding purchases of Mongolian coal and financing new logistics routes that deepen Ulaanbaatar’s dependence on its southern neighbor while simultaneously reducing Russia’s role in regional trade.
The Kremlin has finally abandoned plans to build the North Siberian Railway, which was supposed to become a key transport corridor for coal exports and the Northern Sea Route.
Ukrenergo CEO Vitalii Zaychenko believes that it may take weeks to improve the electricity supply situation after the Russian attack on the night of December 6.