The World Bank is implementing the Ukraine Agriculture Recovery Inclusive Support Emergency (ARISE) Project that will help more than 90,000 farmers to access affordable loans and receive grants for agricultural production. This is said in a press release by the World Bank. “The Ukraine Agriculture Recovery Inclusive Support Emergency (ARISE) Project will provide access to…
Last week authorized banks issued 454 soft loans worth UAH 1.9 billion under the program Affordable Loans 5-7-9% in Ukraine. “Over the past week, 454 affordable loans worth UAH 1.9 billion were issued under the program, including 292 loan agreements worth UAH 0.57 billion concluded by public sector banks,” the Ministry of Finance said. Since…
On October 30, two vessels used the temporary Black Sea corridor to enter Ukrainian seaports, the Centre for Transport Strategies reported. According to ship traffic monitoring services, the bulk carrier Seajoy is heading to the port of Odesa, and the Mohamad Y is heading to one of the ports of Odesa region. On October 29,…
Due to bad weather, shelling and technological disruptions, consumers in 9 regions were cut off from electricity on October 30; restrictions on electricity production from renewable energy sources amounted to over 892 MW. Due to unfavourable weather conditions, 100 settlements in 6 regions – Donetsk, Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Sumy, and Chernihiv – remain without power…
Dependence on russian energy sources is a direct threat to the national security of countries. This was emphasised by Minister of Energy of Ukraine German Galushchenko in a video address to the participants of the Baltic Energy Forum. The head of the Ministry of Energy noted that russia had long been using energy as a…
According to forecasts of the National Bank of Ukraine, the total amount of financial assistance in the form of loans and grants will reach about $45 billion in 2023. “The total volume of financial assistance in the form of loans and grants is expected to reach about $45 billion this year. These revenues remain the…
The key areas of strengthening economic cooperation between the countries and cooperation in the field of humanitarian demining were discussed during a meeting on October 25 between Yuliia Svyrydenko, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of Ukraine, and Ricardo Lopez-Aranda Jagu, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of Spain to Ukraine. According…