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The Union of Road Carriers of Slovakia (UNAS) threatens to completely block the Vyšné Nemecké-Uzhhorod border crossing point if the situation with the return of the permit system for Ukrainian truckers is not resolved.
The temporarily occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is currently receiving electricity from only one power line. Russian shelling prevents the restoration of the second line.
As of the morning of December 6, some 2,950 trucks are waiting in line to cross the border from Poland to Ukraine as the blockade of the border checkpoints by Polish carriers continues.
PJSC Ukrnafta drilled a new oil well in western Ukraine, with an initial flow rate of 25-30 tonnes per day.
05 December 2023
Ukraine and the World Bank have signed an agreement on the launch of a new project, entitled "Investing in Social Protection for Inclusion, Resilience, and Efficiency (INSPIRE)", to finance 29 social assistance programs in the country.
As a result of the blockade of the Ukrainian-Polish border, exports through these checkpoints decreased by 40%, and the state budget of Ukraine lost UAH 9.3 billion due to a shortfall in customs payments.
European Commissioner for Transport Adina-Ioana Vălean said that the EU supports the preservation of the Agreement on the liberalization of transport between Ukraine and the EU.
Truck traffic through the Vyšné Nemecké checkpoint, adjacent to the Ukrainian checkpoint Uzhhorod, has been unblocked.
At the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), G7+ countries and Ukraine launched the Clean Energy Partnership, to support the sustainable recovery and reconstruction of Ukraine.
As of December 4, 200 vessels have exported more than 7 million tonnes of cargo from the ports of Great Odesa since the start of operation of a temporary maritime corridor in the Black Sea announced by the Ukrainian Navy in August 2023.
In the 2023/2024 marketing year (MY) (from July 1 to December 4, 2023), Ukraine exported 13.402 million tons of grains and legumes.
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) sold $ 739.5 million on the interbank foreign exchange market over the past week.
04 December 2023
The Contributors’ Committee of the EU for Ukraine Fund managed by the European Investment Bank (EIB) has approved the Fund’s first project financing of EUR 25 million.
Every tenth kilowatt consumed by the city's industry is generated by solar power plants
Lithuanian Finance Minister Gintare Skaiste and Governor of the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) Carlo Monticelli signed an agreement in Vilnius on Monday, under which Lithuania will send EUR 1 million to the CEB's Ukraine Solidarity Fund for the recovery of the country.
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Monday that Poland would again demand the renewal of permits restricting the transit of Ukrainian truckers across the border.
As of this morning, 650 trucks were queuing at the Slovak border due to the blockade.
Transnational corporations Philip Morris International (PMI) and Japan Tobacco International (JTI) paid $8 billion to the Russian budget last year alone.
As of the morning of December 4, 2,500 trucks are waiting in lines to cross the border from Poland to Ukraine. The blockade continues.
In Zakarpattia, customs officers have recorded a decrease in truck queues at the border within the region.
At the Uhryniv-Dolhobyczów checkpoint on the Ukrainian-Polish border, registration of empty heavy trucks exiting Ukraine has begun.
Negotiations with the Polish government are ongoing and certain points of contact and compromises have been found, so the proposals are enough for the protesters to stop blocking the border.
Ukraine’s Ministry of Energy and Italy’s Ministry of Environment and Energy Security have signed a memorandum of cooperation in the development of renewable energy.
03 December 2023
A patrol boat being transported to Ukraine has been blocked at the Ukrainian-Polish border.
The Uhryniv-Dołhobyczow border crossing point on the Ukrainian-Polish border will open for empty trucks leaving Ukraine, with a daily capacity of more than 100 trucks.
02 December 2023
Ukraine's State Property Fund plans to hold more than 90 privatization auctions in December, and 55 of them have already been announced.
As of December 2, 2023, power supply services were interrupted in 497 settlements across Ukraine. Fifty-six of them were left without electricity due to bad weather, while the rest – as a result of hostilities.
The recent eighth power outage incident at Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) is yet another reminder about the precarious nuclear safety and security situation at the plant, which can be affected by events far away from the site itself.