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Friday, 19 April 2024, 10:55
According to preliminary estimates, losses from the occupation of Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (NPP) by Russian forces amount to UAH 30 billion, while lost profits of Ukraine’s National Nuclear Energy Generating Company Energoatom exceed UAH 167 billion.
The Cabinet of Ministers is donating UAH 792 million from the budget’s reserve fund to strengthen Ukraine’s defense capabilities. The funds will be distributed among military units to cover their most urgent needs.
China's state-owned banks are tightening restrictions on financing Russian clients after U.S. President Joe Biden signed a decree imposing secondary sanctions on foreign financial companies that help Moscow in the war in Ukraine.
16 January 2024
According to the information from Polish border guards, at 20:00, Polish freight carriers ceased the protest rally at the border, thus unblocking all checkpoints for Ukrainian trucks.
Assistance to Ukraine will be more effective if EU countries fulfill their promises and do so without delay. An effective measure could be to set a fixed percentage of GDP, including that of EU member states, to help and enable Ukraine to win the war against Russia.
In Davos, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky met with representatives of the world's largest financial funds.
This morning, Romanian farmers resumed blocking the road near the Vicovu de Sus checkpoint opposite Krasnoilsk.
At a meeting in Davos, President Volodymyr Zelensky invited representatives of big business to invest in Ukraine and participate in its recovery.
The Ministry of Infrastructure of Poland has signed an agreement with the organizers of the blockade of checkpoints on the Polish-Ukrainian border, as a result of which the protesters suspend their protest until March 1.
Polish freight carriers, which have been blocking a number of border crossings with Ukraine since November, reached an agreement with the Polish government on "certain conditions" and will suspend their protest on Wednesday, January 17.
Ukraine and Romania are working to launch two new cargo checkpoints on their common border.
An agreement was reached between the Romanian Ministry of Agriculture and representatives of large agricultural organizations, which resulted in the satisfaction of several demands of farmers who had been protesting and blocking the border with Ukraine for six days.
Almost 50 companies are on the list of international sponsors of the war, most of them from China.
In 2023, Naftogaz Group paid UAH 90.2 billion in taxes to the state and local budgets.
15 January 2024
More than 2,000 trucks are queuing up on the border of Ukraine and Poland, and another 1,000 are queuing up on other parts of the border.
Romanian farmers have again blocked the movement of trucks through the Siret checkpoint, and the blocking of the Vicovu de Sus checkpoint has also begun.
The draft Hydrogen Strategy until 2050 has been presented as part of a working group meeting in the Ukrainian Energy Ministry.
14 January 2024
The priority tasks for solving the problem of global food insecurity are demining the Black Sea, strengthening air defenses for Ukraine's port infrastructure and humanitarian aid for the most vulnerable countries.
Romanian farmers have resumed protests and blocked truck traffic at the Siret crossing point on the Romanian side of the border with Ukraine.
Under the USAID Agricultural and Rural Development (AGRO) program, Ukrainian enterprises that provide services for processing and storage of agricultural products will receive up to UAH 270 million in co-financing for the development of grain storage capacities.
Russia is devising a legal challenge to snarl any efforts by the United States or Europe to confiscate some of its $300 billion in frozen central bank assets in favor of Ukraine.
In 2023, Ukrzaliznytsia JSC transported 30.58 million tonnes of grain.
The Black Sea Grain Initiative was very important and beneficial for Ukraine and the world, as it prevented a global food crisis, but the grain export route operating today provides wider opportunities in terms of volume and quantity of goods.
13 January 2024
The blockade of truck traffic across the Porubne-Siret crossing point on the Romanian side of the border has been lifted.
The total amount of military aid provided by Denmark to Ukraine since the beginning of the war is about $3 billion, according to the Ukrainian Economy Ministry.
Romanian farmers have blocked the passage of trucks through the Romanian checkpoint Siret opposite the Ukrainian checkpoint Porubne.
At a meeting with the newly appointed Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs of the French Republic, Stéphane Séjourné, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal invited French businesses to actively get involved in Ukraine’s reconstruction projects.
The Government of Denmark has endorsed a new package of assistance in support of reconstruction efforts in the city of Mykolaiv, totaling more than USD 21 million.
To strengthen Ukraine's defense capabilities, the Cabinet of Ministers has allocated an additional almost UAH 2.5 billion for the construction of engineering and fortification facilities.