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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.
In all regions of Ukraine on Sunday, December 7, electricity consumption schedules will be in effect from 00:00 to 23:59, with three to four rotation blocks being disconnected.
06 December 2025
The new economic strategy developed by the Kremlin envisions increased state pressure under the guise of empty promises of growth and modernization.
Emergency power cuts have been introduced in several regions of Ukraine on December 6 as a result of a massive Russian missile and drone attack on energy infrastructure.
Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant temporarily lost all external power supply during the night of December 5–6. This was the 11th such incident since the start of the Russian-Ukrainian war.
In Ukraine, as a result of Russia’s massive strike on energy facilities on Saturday, December 6, the scope of previously forecast electricity consumption restriction measures has been increased.
Despite the war, Ukraine remains a key player in the global vegetable oil market, with sunflower oil accounting for the lion’s share (89%) of the category, while the share of soybean and rapeseed oils is gradually increasing.
WTI oil prices are showing weekly growth amid escalating tensions between the United States and Venezuela and the expected interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve.
05 December 2025
From December 1 to 12, 2025, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is carrying out another special mission at Ukraine’s energy infrastructure facilities that are critical for the safety of nuclear power plants.
According to experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the New Safe Confinement (NSC) at the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, which was damaged in a drone strike in February, has lost its primary safety functions. However, its main structures and monitoring systems did not sustain irreversible damage.
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a decision aimed at curbing the growth of electricity transmission tariffs.
Since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, Russia has built a shadow fleet of more than 1,240 tankers to circumvent Western sanctions and continue selling oil.
On the morning of December 5, emergency electricity outages are being implemented in Kharkiv, Sumy, Poltava, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk regions, and partially in Kirovohrad region.
The United Kingdom is considering transferring £8 billion (nearly $11 billion) worth of Russian assets frozen on its territory to Ukraine.
Deputy Minister of Energy of Ukraine Olha Yukhymchuk took part in the meeting of Cluster 3 of the Subcommittee on Economic and Other Sectoral Cooperation of the Ukraine-EU Association Committee.