Since the beginning of 2025, businesses have received 4,817 soft loans under the Affordable Loans at 5-7-9% programme totalling UAH 21.9 billion. Since the launch of the programme in February 2020, businesses have taken 108,500 loans worth UAH 381.9 billion. Last week, Ukrainian entrepreneurs received 1,090 soft loans worth UAH 10.2 billion. “In spring, preferential…
The Minister of Energy of Ukraine German Galushchenko met with Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Grossi. The parties met in Vienna, Austria, where the IAEA Board of Governors was meeting. After three years of russia’s full-scale aggression against Ukraine and the russian occupation of the Zaporizhia NPP, threats to nuclear and…
The Government has adopted a number of decisions that will help accelerate the restoration of communities in Ukraine. This was announced by Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal during a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers on March 7. In particular, according to the Head of Government, an additional UAH 5 billion has been allocated for recovery…
As expected, inflation continued to grow at the start of the year, including due to the growing impact of underlying factors, governor of the National Bank of Ukraine Andriy Pyshnyy stated at a briefing at the central bank. Inflation accelerated to 12.9% YoY in January and, according to preliminary estimates, continued to rise in February.…
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has recorded a halt in the trend of decreasing interest rates on deposits and expects their further increase following the latest monetary policy decisions, the NBU Governor Andriy Pyshnyy has said. “The downward trend in deposit interest rates has stopped. Moreover, in January, we recorded a slight, but significant…
On March 4, the Finance Ministry of Ukraine raised UAH 6.7 billion to the state budget at an auction for the placement of domestic government bonds. The ministry’s press service wrote this on Facebook. The Finance Ministry offered investors hryvnia-denominated domestic government bonds: UAH 979 billion at 15.85% with a 1.4-year maturity, UAH 619 million…
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is considering financing energy and infrastructure programs in Ukraine previously managed by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). This was stated by the head of JICA’s Ukraine office Hideki Matsunaga at the 5th Ukrainian-Japanese Forum organized by the New Europe Center. Matsunaga noted that USAID and JICA had…