The Ukrainian women who have fled to Lithuania are not waiting for social payments or assistance from the state. While some go to work, others take matters into their hands and start businesses from scratch. Natalia Nesterenko and Yekaterina Semenyuk were running a dairy business in Kyiv before the start of the full-scale Russian invasion.…
On December 18, power supply was restored to another 3 million Ukrainians. In total, after the Russian recent missile attack, electricity had been restored to nine million residents of Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelensky said this in a nightly video address to the nation. “Power was restored to another three million Ukrainians. Plus six million yesterday.…
U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink has confirmed the first delivery of emergency repair equipment from the United States. “Grateful for the work of Ukraine’s air defense amid more escalatory Russian attacks this morning on civilian infrastructure in Kyiv and around the country. First U.S. shipment of emergency repair equipment has already arrived – Ukraine…
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda says he has informed Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson about disagreements between the two countries over the sharing of surplus profits generated by electricity producers. “Today I informed the Swedish prime minister about the problem and he promised to look into it,” the president told reporters in Brussels on December 15…
Poland’s core inflation, which excludes the prices of food and energy, measured 11.4% YoY in November, up from 11% in October, the National Bank of Poland (NBP) said. Inflation excluding fixed prices amounted to 18.1% YoY in November, down from 18.7% in the previous month. Inflation excluding the most volatile items measured 15% in November,…
Ukrainians who fled Russia’s war would be issued only digital temporary residence permits in Lithuania from next year, the Migration Department said on December 16. Such residence permits will be issued to both new arrivals and those already in the country. “The digitisation of this process will save a lot of time for Ukrainian refugees,…
The agreement between the Republic of Moldova and the European Union on the liberalization of carriage of freight by road has been extended. “Moldovan freight carriers will continue to be able to travel on the territory of the EU without authorization, after the Moldova-EU agreement on freight road transport liberalization has been extended until June…