Grain Deal extended for two months
The grain deal has been extended for two months.
17 May 2023
The grain deal has been extended for two months.
According to Turkish officials, the agreement that allows Ukraine to export crops from key ports across the Black Sea will be extended. Russia has so far agreed to stay in the deal.
Under the state aid program for the restoration of damaged housing, called “eVіdnovlennya," 10,440 Ukrainians have submitted applications for the corresponding payments during the first week of its operation.
The last ship left a port in Ukraine on Wednesday as part of an agreement that allows for the safe export of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea.
According to the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, 285,000 hectares of spring wheat may be planted in Ukraine this year. The last time such areas were planted during the spring sowing season was 12 years ago.
Ukraine and South Korea signed an intergovernmental preliminary agreement on loans granted by the Economic Development Co-operation Fund (EDCF), administered by the Export-Import Bank of Korea.
The government of France has allocated €7 million for the improvement of housing for the residents of Mariupol who were forced to leave the city due to its occupation by the Russian army.
16 May 2023
Ukraine is counting on South Korea's significant contribution to the country’s post-war recovery.
Ukraine is preparing its energy system for the next heating season, taking into account possible military threats.
Ukraine's five-year recovery period will require additional investments of about USD 50 billion per year.
In the 41st week of the grain corridor's operation, from May 8 to 14, 2023, not a single vessel was inspected or registered for entry into Ukrainian seaports.
Ukraine’s economy is expected to grow modestly as businesses adapt to war circumstances.
Ukraine is ready to offer Europe its gas, underground gas storage facilities, and capacities for the production and transportation of biogas and green hydrogen.
Ukraine insists that Russia should be held accountable by the International Criminal Court for crimes against the country’s civilian energy infrastructure.
The Japanese government plans to invite representatives of the Ukrainian government to share technologies that will help rebuild the country after the devastation caused by Russia’s invasion.
Deputy Prime Minister for Restoration of Ukraine and Minister for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development Oleksandr Kubrakov has met with the representatives of the United Nations, and the United States, Japan, Canada, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Italy, Spain, Denmark, Slovenia, Ireland, Switzerland, Korea, Belgium, and the Netherlands to discuss Ukraine’s reconstruction.
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) sold $552.2 million on the interbank foreign exchange market over the past week.
15 May 2023
The Russian Federation is blackmailing the world by disrupting the Black Sea Grain Initiative and pretending to suffer from its operation, while, in fact, grain exports from the Russian Federation have doubled, the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, Sergiy Kyslytsya, told a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Monday.
Disruptions in the grain corridor affect the food and social security of African countries to which Ukraine supplies humanitarian food through seaports.
The Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine (ESBU), together with the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU), exposed a large-scale scheme of theft of gas from the gas transportation system of Ukraine. ESBU and SSU informed Dmytro Firtash and the top management of his companies about the suspicion.
Today, the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) and the Economic Security Bureau of Ukraine (ESBU) will serve businessman Dmytro Firtash with a notice of suspicion of committing a crime.
The interagency working group prepared a list of projects with preliminary prioritization for the allocation of funds for recovery from the Fund for the Liquidation of the Consequences of Armed Aggression.
Russian invaders have seized all enterprises in the occupied part of the Zaporizhzhia region, and 90% of them are not operating.
14 May 2023
As part of the Emergency Recovery Program implemented in accordance with the Grant Agreement between the Government of Ukraine and the Japan International Cooperation Agency, equipment for substations worth JPY 5.135 billion will be handed over to the National Energy Company “Ukrenergo”.
13 May 2023
After three days of negotiations, the finance ministers of the G7 countries increased their commitment of economic and budget support for Ukraine for 2023 and early 2024 to $44 billion.
Ukraine has received a loan worth $132 million from the World Bank to develop the agricultural sector.
Since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the embattled nation has lost access to 5.5 million able-bodied Ukrainians, roughly 30% of its workforce.
Energoatom National Nuclear Energy Generating Company is conducting training for the personnel who will enter Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) and start working immediately after the plant’s de-occupation.
12 May 2023
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has enacted another package of sanctions, introducing restrictive measures against the property of Russian companies in Ukraine and the property of the Ukrainian economic entities affiliated with them.