The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has identified 14 systemically important banks in accordance with the updated methodology, the central bank’s press service has reported. “The National Bank has determined the list of systemically important banks in accordance with the updated methodology. The new methodology has significantly expanded the number of such banks,” reads the…
Ukraine has every opportunity to get energy independence in five years, Prime Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Groysman has said. “If all of us work in unison, in five years we will be able to abandon purchasing gas,” he declared. The prime minister stressed that for many years Ukraine had been preserving its capabilities and gas…
In May the average nominal salary amounted to UAH 10,239, which was 2.5 times higher than the minimum wage, according to the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade. “The salary grew by almost 17.4% YoY,” the ministry wrote on its Facebook page. The ministry also noted that the highest average monthly salaries were recorded in…
In January-May Ukraine shipped 4.6 million tons of wheat to foreign markets valued at $974 million, reported the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine. Also, in the reporting period Ukraine supplied 373 thousand tons of barley to foreign markets for $77 million and 81 thousand tons of rye for $1.2 million. According to the State Fiscal…
On June 25-27 a delegation of the Ukrainian League of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (ULIE) headed by Mykhailo Lukashev made a working visit to Qatar. According to the press service of the Embassy of Ukraine in Qatar, a number of opportunities and proposals of Ukrainian companies in construction, metallurgy, IT and agriculture sectors was presented to…
The volume of public and publicly guaranteed debt of Ukraine in May decreased in dollar terms by $1.44 billion, or by 1.8%, to $78.4 billion, the Ministry of Finance reports. In the hryvnia equivalent, public debt for the said period was down by UAH 18.36 billion, or by 0.9%, to UAH 2.106 trillion. According to…
In January-May the volume of construction works in Ukraine increased by 26.3% YoY, according to the data provided by the State Statistics Service. In particular, the construction of engineering facilities in January-May rose by 40.6%, and construction of buildings – by 14.8%, as compared with the relevant period last year. Also, the construction volume of…