News Ukraine: ₴60 million has been found to fund meals in Mykolaiv’s nurseries — the funds will be taken from the municipal enterprise’s loan guarantees
The Executive Committee has approved the submission of budget amendments to the Mykolaiv City Council for consideration. The amendments relate to 60 million hryvnias for school meals in the city’s nurseries. This funding should last until October.
News Ukraine: Sienkevych has instructed officials to report on the loans taken out by Mykolaiv’s municipal enterprises
Mykolaiv’s mayor, Oleksandr Sienkevych, has asked the municipal utilities to provide detailed information regarding their financial obligations under major loans. In particular, this concerns the municipal enterprises «Mykolaivvodokanal», «Mykolaivoblteploenergo», «Mykolaivelektrotrans» and «Mykolaipastrans».
News Ukraine: Financial front: Keeping Ukraine in the fight and solvent
On Thursday, Ukraine's government committed to spending almost another €30 billion on the country's defence requirements this year, bringing total defence expenditure to more than €80bn for 2026 - its ...
News Ukraine: Russia claims full control of Ukraine’s Luhansk region but Kyiv denies it ahead of U.S. envoy talks
This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Russia claims full control of Ukraine’s Luhansk region, but Kyiv dismisses the assertion, saying it maintains key ...
News Ukraine: Russia Claims Complete Control of Ukraine’s Luhansk Region
Russiaâs military leaders say theyâve taken complete control of eastern Ukraineâs Luhansk region. Itâs one of four Ukrainian regions Russia annexed in 2022. On Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized Russia for rejecting a proposed Orthodox Easter holiday truce; he says Moscow instead fired more than 700 drones into Ukraine in daytime attacks targeting civilian infrastructure. At least four people were killed. Meanwhile, the Financial Times reports President Trump is
News Ukraine: Kiev and Warsaw on the warpath. What should Poles keep in mind?
The diplomatic and political rift between Poland and Ukraine has significantly escalated. It seems that just a little more, and the Poles will launch a campaign for the denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine.
News Ukraine: We created a unique system for the defense sector: Full interview with Ukraine's central bank governor
For four years, Ukraine’s central bank has faced full scale-invasion, bouts of inflation, and the relentless task of keeping Ukraine’s financial system afloat through it all. But under Governor Andrii Pyshnyi’s tenure, which started in late 2022, the bank has also overseen the monumental rise of Ukraine’s mil-tech sector, progress towards privatiza...
News Ukraine: Exclusive: Ukraine’s central bank chief says 2 state-owned banks have 'good chance' of being privatized by year-end
Sense Bank and Ukrgazbank have a "good chance" of being privatized by the end of 2026, Ukraine's central bank chief Andriy Pyshnyi told the Kyiv Independent in an interview on June 24 on the sidelines of the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Gdansk, Poland.
News Ukraine: Ukrainian Agriculture at Risk as the European Union's Liberalized Trade Measures Expire
The expiration of wartime trade exemptions by the European Commission on Ukrainian food imports could compound challenges for Ukrainian producers, who are now facing their fourth-straight growing season in wartime conditions.
News Ukraine: Ukraine Moves $8.3 Million in Seized Crypto Under State Management
Ukraine moved $8.3 million in seized crypto to ARMA, the first time the state has directly managed digital assets.
News Ukraine: Poland’s Ukraine Reconstruction Push Tested By Diplomatic Tensions
Historical policy disputes and escalating diplomatic tensions between Poland and Ukraine add friction to discussions on reconstruction cooperation.
News Ukraine: Ukraine's drone assaults severely impact Russian oil output — economic downturn intensifies
According to evaluations from The New York Times, Reuters, and Bloomberg, Ukraine's ongoing drone offensive targeting Russian oil facilities has compromised about 20 percent of the nation's refining capabilities since the start of 2024. As a result, Russia was compelled to cut oil production by 300,000 to 400,000 barrels per day in April 2026, marking the most significant monthly decline in six years. This reduction was primarily due to Ukrainian drone attacks on refineries and ports, along with the halting of the Druzhba pipeline. April saw Russia's refinery operations plummet to their lowest point in over 16 years. These attacks are critically undermining Russia's capacity to finance its military endeavors, given that oil and gas revenues constitute roughly one-third of the federal budget. In 2025, Russia's economy recorded a mere 0.6 percent growth amidst escalating sanctions and the financial burdens of warfare.
News Ukraine: European Investment In The Ukrainian Defense Industry Threatened By Personnel Shuffle
Ukrainian soldiers fire a Bohdana self-propelled howitzer built in Ukraine with help from Denmark. (Photo by Roman Chop/Global Images Ukraine) In mid-2024, as the war in Ukraine ground into a third ...
News Ukraine: For Ukraine's mil-tech startups, access to credit remains a battlefield
When a bank asked Ukrainian defense tech company TAF Industries to pledge its assets as collateral for a simple bank loan, the company faced a dilemma: it couldn't reveal the location of its manufacturing facilities. To prove the factory existed, TAF came up with a bold workaround — blindfolding bank officials and driving them to the site. "It worked — they gave us a loan," Volodymyr Zinovskyi, CEO at TAF Industries, told the Kyiv Independent in a cafe in downtown Kyiv. Well into the fifth ye
News Ukraine: EU approves €90bn loan for Ukraine as pipeline is turned on ending deadlock
Oil supplies through the Druzhba pipeline into Hungary and Slovakia were halted at the end of January (file pic) Ukraine says it has resumed pumping Russian oil through a pipeline into Hungary and ...
News Ukraine: Russia attacks Odessa as Czech President Petr Pavel meets with Ukraine officials
March 21 (UPI) --Russia attacked Ukraine's port city of Odessa overnight, triggering fires as several infrastructure targets were hit as well as a high-rise residential building and shopping center.
News Ukraine: Ukraine accepts EU help to restart Druzhba oil pipeline
BRUSSELS — Ukraine has accepted EU technical and financial support to repair the damaged Druzhba oil pipeline, in a bid to restore oil flows to Hungary and Slovakia. The agreeme ...
News Ukraine: JYSK opens 2 renovated stores in Ukrainian cities of Cherkasy, Chernivtsi
The international JYSK retail chain in Ukraine on Thursday reopened two stores after renovation at the DEPO't shopping mall in Cherkasy and the Maidan shopping center in Chernivtsi, the company's press service reported.
