There were 1,900 trucks in queues on the border of Ukraine and Poland, and the directions of three checkpoints were being blocked, the spokesperson for the State Border Guard Service, Andriy Demchenko said on January 11. “The blocking of the Rava-Ruska-Hrebenne, Krakivets-Korczowa and Yahodyn-Dorohusk checkpoints continues. According to the Polish border guards, as of this…
Ukraine remains committed to its international obligations and continues to ensure the uninterrupted supply of food products to the most vulnerable countries despite Russia’s withdrawal from the grain deal and attacks on Ukraine’s port infrastructure, the Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security reports. “Ukraine remains one of the world’s largest producers and leading exporters…
Volodymyr Balin, Vice President of the Association of International Road Carriers (AsMAP), believes that Poland may cease to be the largest transit route for Ukrainian trucks to other EU countries. “We have to be prepared for the fact that Poland will no longer be the largest transit country for us to other countries of the…
The plan for the priority return of agricultural land to economic use from the beginning of 2024 has been updated. From now on, according to the plan of priority inspection and if necessary, more than 512,000 hectares of agricultural land are due to be cleared and demined. This was reported by Yuliia Svyrydenko, First Deputy…
In the first week of 2024, 465 entrepreneurs received loans under the Affordable Loans programme totalling UAH 2.2 billion. Since the launch of the programme in February 2020, 79,000 loans worth UAH 269 billion have been issued. In 2023, entrepreneurs took out the most loans to replenish working capital (UAH 47 billion) and anti-war loans…
Last year, more than 300,000 new individual entrepreneurs and more than 37,000 new companies were registered in Ukraine. This is reported by the Opendatabot. “304,048 new registrations of individual entrepreneurs were recorded in Ukraine as of December 29, 2023. The number of new businesses exceeded the figures for 2021 by 7%,” the statement said. The…
Another batch of energy equipment for Ukraine, provided by Japan with the assistance of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), in the form of gas turbines, is an important contribution to the decentralisation of electricity generation. This was emphasised by the Minister of Energy of Ukraine German Galushchenko…