Ukraine received an additional JPY 65-billion (about $500 million) concessional loan under a loan agreement signed by Finance Minister Sergii Marchenko and President of the Japan International Cooperation Agency Jaika (JICA) Akihiko Tanaka. The funds are directed to the state budget to finance priority social and humanitarian expenditures, healthcare, etc. The loan is provided on…
London is ready to provide another $525 million in guarantees for World Bank lending later this year. The UK government said this in a press release. This lending is covering costs like Ukrainian public sector wages, and the running of schools and hospitals. The new support announced by the UK government brings the total amount…
The UK government is contributing up to GBP 10 million to repair Ukraine’s rail infrastructure to facilitate the export of grain from the country amid Russian aggression. “In addition to preventing grain from leaving Ukraine via the Black Sea – the route by which 96% of Ukraine’s grain has historically been exported, Russian attacks are…
Ukraine has joined the EU’s LIFE program, under which it will be able to get resources and funding to address the long-term effects of Russian aggression, as well as to restore the environment as a whole. Ukraine’s Environment Minister Ruslan Strilets and EU Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevicius signed a respective document…
On June 24, the Head of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland, Minister Michal Dworczyk, and the Minister for Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine, Oleksii Chernyshov, opened a temporary modular town in the hero city of Bucha, Kyiv region. “Today we are opening a temporary town for 352 places…
The Pension Fund of Ukraine informs that as of June 22 a resource of UAH 45.9 billion has been allocated for pension payments, including UAH 12 billion for the payment of pensions through Ukrposhta JSC and UAH 33.9 billion through authorized banks. Authorized banks credited 100% of the financed amounts to pensioners’ accounts. According to…
Polish shipbuilding industry officials are willing to set up cooperation with counterparts in Ukraine to restore the latter’s merchant fleet. Tadeusz Kopowski, chief of the Crist shipbuilding company, spoke about this in the framework of the Ukrainian-Polish Entrepreneurship Forum in Warsaw. “Poland’s shipbuilding industry proposes to create permanent Polish-Ukrainian working groups, in which we would…