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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.
Ukraine is filing a lawsuit with the World Trade Organization against Poland, Hungary, and Slovakia over unilateral restrictions on imports of Ukrainian agricultural products, and at the same time offers a compromise scenario.
As of September 19, 2023, a total of 14.7 billion cubic meters of natural gas was pumped into Ukrainian underground gas storage facilities.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) expects to continue to invest roughly EUR 1.5 billion ($1.6 billion) per year in Ukraine in the coming two years.
The vessel RESILIENT AFRICA with 3,000 tonnes of wheat on board has left the Ukrainian port of Chornomorsk and is heading towards the Bosphorus.
In accordance with the WTO's dispute settlement procedure, Ukraine has requested consultations with Slovakia, Poland, and Hungary within the WTO.
Agriculture ministers meeting formally in Brussels will hear the European Commission's (EC) position on the decision of certain EU member states to restrict imports of Ukrainian grain to their markets. The Spanish EU Presidency believes that such unilateral actions by these states are illegal.
The issue of grain exports from Ukraine to five neighboring EU member states should be resolved in the spirit of solidarity, according to the rules of the EU market and in compliance with international trade law.
The head of Ukraine’s defense intelligence agency expects Russia’s economy to hold out only until 2025.
18 September 2023
Bulgarian farmers have begun blocking a number of important road and checkpoints across the country as part of an indefinite nationwide agricultural protest that began on September 18 in response to the permission to import grain from Ukraine.
Five Eastern-flank EU countries (Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria) do not agree to Ukraine's proposals for further grain exports to the European market.