Category: 9. Business

State bank Oschadbank signed a €10.8M investment loan agreement with the Elios Luchky company, from the Helios Strategia group, to fund the construction of a solar power plant with an installed capacity of 22.35 MW (inverter capacity – 16 MW), as well as an energy…

With the start of the full-scale war, Transcarpathia has become a key point for internal migration. Uzhhorod, owing to its proximity to EU countries and developed infrastructure, has become a center of new business activity. Demand for commercial real estate in the city…

Over the next five years, the Ukrainian Financial Housing Company (Ukrfinzhitlo), which ensures the functioning of the mortgage lending market in Ukraine and introduces financial and credit mechanisms to provide citizens with housing, will transition to market lending…

Serhiy Kolesnyk, co-owner of the popular Polish retail chain Best Market, announced his intention to expand into Ukraine if the military situation stabilizes. The chain is currently developing the Best Market, Foodex24, Foodex Express, and Best Beer brands. According to…

The US president stated that he was extremely dissatisfied with his July 3 talk with Putin because no progress was made toward ending the war in Ukraine. Trump does not trust Putin’s intentions to cease hostilities, saying: “He wants to go to the end to keep killing…

German government spokesperson Stefan Cornelius said that Germany is in intensive negotiations with the US to provide Ukraine with Patriot air defense systems and is ready to pay for two of them. At the same time, US President Donald Trump stated during a phone call with…

BlackRock suspended work on establishing a multibillion-dollar fund for Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction after Donald Trump became the US President in November 2024. The pro bono advisory work was completed in 2024, and in January 2025 the company paused negotiations…

President Zelenskyy described it as one of the largest-scale and most cynical strikes, with a total of 550 drones and rockets fired at Ukraine. The primary target was Kyiv, and Ukraine’s defense forces managed to shoot down 270 air targets, while electronic warfare…

On July 6, Russia claimed to have neutralized 120 Ukrainian drones overnight. Due to air attack threats, some flights were canceled, disrupting airports. On July 5, Ukrainian Defense Forces targeted the Borisoglebsk airfield in Voronezh, which hosts Su-34, Su-35S, and…

The number of tankers in Russia’s shadow fleet has increased from fewer than 100 in early 2022 to about 300-600 in early 2025, depending on the classification method, according to a report by Dryad Global. Approximately 40% of these tankers came from sellers in the EU,…