During the Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group (WBG) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), representatives of the Ukrainian and Australian governments signed a Convention for the Elimination of Double Taxation with respect to taxes on income and the prevention of tax evasion and avoidance. According to the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, the…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has met with U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright to discuss joint projects. Zelensky said this in a post on Facebook seen by Ukrinform. “During my meeting with Secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy Chris Wright, we discussed in detail energy capacities and potential projects for partnership in the energy…
Deputy Minister of Economy, Environment and Agriculture of Ukraine Pavlo Kartashov held a meeting in Kyiv with a French business delegation organised on the initiative of Business France, with the participation of UkraineInvest Executive Director Maryna Khlystun. They discussed the participation of French companies in post-war reconstruction projects and new opportunities for investment cooperation. The…
Ukraine’s national power grid operator Ukrenergo currently has no plans to introduce scheduled hourly power outages for households. The company’s CEO, Vitalii Zaichenko, said that the ongoing emergency power cuts were the result of Russian attacks on Ukraine’s energy system and insufficient electricity imports from Europe due to high market prices there. “At the moment,…
Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko and her Government team met with John Jovanovic, President of the U.S. Export-Import Bank, in Washington, D.C. “We continued developing our business cooperation track with the United States during a meeting with the newly appointed President of the U.S. EXIM Bank, John Jovanovic. I appreciate his attention to Ukraine. It…
Over the first year of the Land Bank project, farmers paid UAH 1.19 billion including VAT for the use of state-owned agricultural land. Through open online auctions in the Prozorro.Sale system, 62,194 hectares – previously in the shadow economy – were transferred into lawful use. “The Land Bank is an example of how transparent and…
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has set new gas prices for electricity generation, effective through March 31, 2026. The changes are outlined in government resolution No. 1306 dated October 10. Under the new pricing structure, combined heat and power plants (CHPPs) operating in a cogeneration cycle will pay UAH 21,000 per 1,000 cubic meters…