The payment of pensions in July has been delayed due to a deficiency in cash receipts of a single social contribution, the Pension Fund of Ukraine posted on its website. “Following numerous requests about the delay in pension payments in July, the Pension Fund informs that changes in the payment schedule are due to a…
Net sales of cash foreign currency by Ukrainians through the banking system amounted to $268.7 million in June. In June the banks sold $947.8 billion in cash currency and bought $679.1 million, according to the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) website. In January-June Ukrainians sold $1.235 billion more in foreign currency than they bought. (UNIAN/Business…
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has introduced changes in tariffs on organizational services and other types of services (operations) carried out by the central bank. The increase in tariffs for banks took place from July 24 for budgetary institutions (including the State Treasury), while for banks being under liquidation and the Deposit Guarantee Fund…
Over five months of 2018 Ukraine has exported 50,138 tons of poultry meat to the EU countries. Ukraine is third largest poultry meat supplier to the European Union. In addition, the exports increased by 90% compared with the same period in 2017. Ukraine follows Thailand (123,894 tons since the beginning of the year) and Brazil…
The United States accounted for the largest share of small arms exports from Ukraine in 2017. A report on Ukrainian-made arms exports was posted by the State Export Control Service of Ukraine. According to the report, Ukraine last year sold 15,040 assault rifles and submachine guns to the United States, while 2,000 pieces of light…
The Ukroboronprom State Concern has started serial production of fuel-air explosives (FAE) – the new RPO-16 infantry fire-flamethrowers equipped with a grenade packed with a special thermobaric mixture, the concern’s press service said. According to the report, new thermobaric weapons, which will be mass-produced in the framework of the state defense order at the concern’s…
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has estimated GDP growth in Ukraine in the second quarter of 2018 at 3.2% YoY. “According to the NBU estimates, the pace of real GDP growth remained practically unchanged in the second quarter, that is 3.2% (3.1% in Q1), and domestic demand was the main driver of the real…