Category: 9. Business
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Ukraine has increased its annual arms production to $30B but has only $10B to purchase weapons for the military.
Ukrainian enterprises that comprise the defense-industrial complex can annually manufacture products with a total value of $30B, Minister of Strategic Industries Herman Smetanin said. Ukraine has already established serial production of an entire range of mortar and… Continue Reading
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Ukraine has already received $100B in external financing and has completed all tasks to receive a new tranche from the IMF.
Before the sixth review of the EFF’s (Extended Fund Facility) extended financing program, Ukraine had fulfilled all structural beacons by the end of October and all quantitative performance criteria by the end of September, Vladyslav Rashkovan, deputy executive… Continue Reading
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What are the government’s plans for the ₴25B in reconstruction money in 2025?
The Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Economy, and the Ministry of Infrastructure selected 136 reconstruction-focused investment projects from 750 proposals submitted through the Dream system. However, not all of them will receive funding from the planned ₴25B… Continue Reading
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Ukraine will receive a loan of up to €50M from Finland and a $1.35B grant from the US for humanitarian and social programs.
The Government of Finland will provide Ukraine a loan of up to €50M for energy, education, and infrastructure projects. The grant represents at least 35% of the total cost, allowing preferential financing conditions. Finland is the fifth largest donor of military,… Continue Reading
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ARX and the DFC team up to offer war risk insurance coverage to businesses for up to ₴100M.
The ARX company, a subsidiary of the international Fairfax Financial Holdings group, together with the DFC (US International Development Finance Corporation), will offer Ukrainian and international companies coverage for property against the risks of damage due to… Continue Reading
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What key Ukrainian industries have suffered enormous losses during the war?
The full-scale war has caused severe economic losses to Ukraine. Gross value added fell by 21%, and Ukraine’s need for reconstruction funds totals $486B. Ukraine’s industrial sector, once the backbone of the economy, has been particularly affected by the war. The… Continue Reading
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The co-founder of one of Ukraine’s largest supermarket chains is investing over $21M in a cottage town near Kyiv and will open shopping centers in small towns.
BGV Development, a real estate development company from co-owner of the ATB supermarket chain, Gennady Butkevich, is investing in a premium cottage town near Kyiv, Equides Villas, that will be built next to the Equides Club (a 160,000 square meter park and hotel… Continue Reading
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How has Ukraine’s real estate market overcome three years of war?
According to LUN Development Director Olena Unanyan, in the pre-war year 2021 there was an active post-COVID period when the prices were rising, developers were actively launching projects, and apartments sold quickly. On average, developers used to launch 100… Continue Reading
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Trump likes two points of the Victory Plan written in the case for his presidency.
Donald Trump, who won the US presidential election, is interested in two points of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Victory Plan, which he presented to Trump during a meeting in September. The first offers Ukrainian troops as replacements for American troops stationed in… Continue Reading
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Trump is gathering his new team, and none are pro-Ukrainian.
US President-elect Donald Trump plans to nominate Florida Senator Marco Rubio as Secretary of State. The senator has recently supported Trump’s narratives on international issues, particularly concerning the stalemate in Russia’s war against Ukraine. In April, he was… Continue Reading