The state and government-guaranteed debt of Ukraine in January-April rose by $3.33 billion, or by 4.7%, to $74.31 billion as of April 30, according to the Finance Ministry’s website. The debt in hryvnia equivalent for the said period went up by UAH 3.16 billion, or by 2.2%, to UAH 1.973 trillion. According to the given…
LOT Polish Airlines is to launch on August 4 a new international flight between the western Ukrainian city of Lviv and the Polish city of Bydgoszcz, according to the Lviv Regional State Administration. The flights will be performed twice a week on Mondays and Fridays, according to the schedule published by Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International…
In June, UAH 725 million in subsidies will be paid to farmers, which is almost three times as much as in May, the press service of the Agrarian Policy Ministry reports. “The Agrarian Policy Ministry of Ukraine transferred to the non-budget account of the State Treasury Service of Ukraine UAH 692 million for automatic payment…
The European Parliament has decided to hold interinstitutional negotiations on granting Ukraine additional trade preferences, having deleted two agricultural tariffs, wheat and processed tomatoes, and one industrial tariff, urea, from the annexes. The vote took place as part of the EP plenary session in Brussels on June 1. The decision was adopted by 475 votes…
Dart airline from June launched regular flights on the Kyiv-Bologna (Italy) route from Kyiv Zhuliany International Airport. According to a press release from the airport, flights will be carried out on Tuesdays and Fridays on board modern Airbus A320/319 aircraft. Departure from Kyiv will be at 09:50, departure from Bologna at 12:35. Dart airline has…
Ukraine added 1.608 billion cubic meters of gas to underground storage in May, according to operational data from Ukrtransgaz. Inventories increased by 24%, to 10.043 billion cubic meters as of the end of May, up from 8.1 billion cubic meters as of March 22, when the heating season ended. The total was 9.6% more than…
Ukraine’s economic losses from the conflict in Donbas in 2016 amounted to 20.4% of GDP, according to statistics data given in the Global Peace Index, published by the Institute for Economics and Peace in Sydney, Australia. According to its data, the economic cost of violence in the country is 20.4% of GDP, or $66.749 billion…