In 2018, the commodity turnover between Italy and Ukraine totaled 4.47 billion, up by 14% YoY, declared the Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine, Stepan Kubiv. More than 14 thousand Ukrainian companies export their products to the European Union. Also, the trend created additional tools for the diversified cooperation, for example, through the…
Zhytomyr authorities and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) have signed a loan agreement to acquire 50 new trolleybuses, Zhytomyr Mayor Serhiy Sukhomlyn has stated. “We have signed a loan guarantee agreement with the EBRD to purchase up to 50 new trolleybuses for Zhytomyr. At the end of May the EBRD announced a…
In the near future, Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak plans to sign an order on the acceptance of the Vilkha missile system and the Vilkha-R multiple rocket launcher for the service with the Armed Forces of Ukraine. “Peculiarities of the system and ammunition lay in the fact that, firstly, it significantly exceeds the tactical and technical…
The decentralization reform launched in 2014 that envisages transfer of financial resources and administrative powers to the regions is entering the second stage. That’s why it is impossible to halt the reform by hasty decisions, Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman stated during a meeting with the leadership of the united territorial communities of Rivne…
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said Ukraine in 2017-2018 built more roads than in the previous decade thanks to the implementation of the government’s five-year strategy. “We built 6,800 km of roads in 2017-2018. It can be said that much less was done in the previous ten years,” he said at a government meeting. At…
Ukraine’s SkyUp Airlines, whose license has been suspended by Kyiv region’s Baryshevsky District Court, says it works in usual mode. As it said on Facebook, flights are performed on schedule. To confirm this, the airline attached photos from passengers’ registration for June 12 flight PQ 0101 to Odesa. “In connection with reports on the suspension…
Ukrzaliznytsia railway operator says there is now more than a tenfold increase, to 1.6 million, in the number of passengers traveling to and from the EU by rail. Since year-start, 374,000 passengers have already traveled to EU countries and back on trains, the company press service quotes CEO Yevhen Kravtsov as saying. “The direct passenger…