According to polls, 64% of Ukrainian defenders consider opening their own business after the war ends. The relevant statement was made by Head of the Association of ATO Veteran Entrepreneurs, Commander of the Special Forces Sniper Platoon of the Kulchytskyi Operational Battalion Serhii Pozniak. In wartime conditions, as noted by Pozniak, people quickly get used…
Global Positioning System (GPS) disruptions in Latvian airspace were recorded 969 times during the first eight months of this year – 2.6 times more than in the same period last year, representatives of the state-owned company Latvijas gaisa satiksme (LGS, Latvian Air Navigation Services) reported. In August alone, 195 GPS disruptions were registered – 19.5…
Estonian pig farmers say they won’t abandon their work, even as mass culls and the worst African swine fever (ASF) outbreak in a decade threaten domestic pork supplies. More than 55,000 pigs – about one-fifth of the country’s domestic pig population – have already been destroyed. The hardest blow came in late August, when the…
Lithuania’s Defence Minister Dovile Sakaliene says she expects Seimas members to help convince US lawmakers not to reduce Washington’s military support for NATO’s eastern member states. Foreign media reported last week that the US planned to end long-running military assistance for European countries close to Russia, including funding for a programme that provided money to…
Over the past week, under the Government’s Affordable Loans at 5-7-9% programme, micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises received 512 preferential loans totalling UAH 1.5 billion, including 364 loans worth UAH 0.8 billion from state-owned banks. Since the start of 2025, entrepreneurs have obtained 19,103 loans worth UAH 56.8 billion under the 5-7-9% programme, with 13,205…