Further financing and expansion of the World Bank’s Resilient, Inclusive and Sustainable Enterprise (RISE) programme, technical support for the preparation of investment and industrial strategies, implementation of the joint IEUR CAN project, involvement of the WB in the development and support of mortgage programmes in Ukraine and other issues were discussed at a meeting between…
European integration, economic and defence cooperation, as well as reconstruction were the main areas of focus during a joint meeting of the Government of Ukraine and the European Commission on February 24. This was announced by Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal. The Head of Government stressed that Ukraine expected to speed up all procedures for joining…
In January, Ukraine allocated UAH 131 billion from the state budget for the security and defense sector, the Finance Ministry announced on Telegram. “UAH 131 billion is the expenditures of the state budget’s general fund for the security and defense sector in January. This is 61.2% of the total amount of expenditures of the state…
While performing an oversight based on the monitoring activity results in 2024, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has determined a list of critical payment infrastructure entities in Ukraine. The relevant statement was made by the NBU’s press service. As in previous years, the NBU’s System of Electronic Payments (SEP) was recognized as the only…
Since the beginning of 2025, businesses have received 2,794 soft loans under the Affordable Loans at 5-7-9% programme totalling UAH 9.4 billion. Since the launch of the programme in February 2020, businesses have taken out 106,500 loans totalling UAH 369.4 billion. Last week, Ukrainian entrepreneurs received 241 soft loans worth UAH 1.3 billion. “Ukrainian businesses…
Today, the situation in the energy sector remains under control, despite russia’s terror against the energy and gas infrastructure. This was announced by Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal at a meeting of the Cabinet on February 21. The Head of the Government stressed that russia was deliberately targeting gas production facilities, seeking to destroy the gas…
The Government has decided to allocate another UAH 7.9 billion for the purchase of drones. This was announced by Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal at a meeting of the Cabinet on February 21. According to him, these funds will be redirected to the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection, which will make the necessary…