PoliticsTechWar Wednesday, May 1 Russia is producing weapons at a record pace, and Ukraine’s partners are trying to increase support. Over the past year, Russia has learned to develop new weapons and ammunition faster than at any time in its modern history, including during the Cold War, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said. Ac... #AnthonyBlinken #DefenseIndustryRussia #Russianweapons #SupportUkraine #WarinUkraine #WeaponsforUkraine
TechWar Wednesday, May 1 Ukraine is increasing long-range drone production to 500 units per month, and the state is increasing funding by ₴15.5B. Ukraine is increasing its production of long-range drones, which should help the Armed Forces bypass restrictions on the use of weapons obtained from Western countries for strikes on Russian territory... #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DroneProduction #UkrainianDrone #UkrainianWeapons #WarinUkraine
EconomyWar Wednesday, May 1 Ukraine’s allies should introduce a duty on imported Russian goods to compensate Ukraine for war damages. Partner countries should introduce a special duty on the import of Russian or Russian-related oil and other products and transfer the money to a compensation fund for damages caused to Ukraine, accord... #CompensationForUkraine #ReparationsForUkraine #RussianAssetsConfiscation #UkraineReconstruction #UkraineWarDamages #WarLosses
EconomyFinance Wednesday, May 1 The first stage of currency liberalization announced by the National Bank will cost Ukraine $5.5B. However, the NBU says it will significantly expand business opportunities, improve the conditions for attracting investment and private capital participation in reconstruction, and, as a result, posit... #AndriiPyshnyi #CurrencyLiberalization #financeUkraine #internationalReserves #nbu
EconomyEnergy Wednesday, May 1 Europe has ended its dependence on Russian gas but is now hooked on Russian fertilizers. After the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Federation sharply reduced the supply of pipeline gas to the EU, in an attempt to put pressure on European governments. Instead, the EU began to build infras... #EnergyIndependence #EUenergy #LNG #RussianFertilizers #RussianGas #RussianTrade
EconomyPolitics Wednesday, May 1 The US is considering a ban on Russian uranium but has temporarily allowed settlements in the energy sector with Russian banks. The Biden administration is considering banning the import of enriched uranium from Russia. Bloomberg writes that negotiations are ongoing, but no decisions have been made yet. Data from the US Depart... #G7 #RussianEnergyResources #RussianTrade #RussianUranium #SanctionsAgainstRussia
Energy Wednesday, May 1 Ukraine aims to increase the volume of European gas in storage to four billion cubic meters and earn ₴70B through the transit of Russian oil. The head of Naftogaz, Oleksiy Chernyshov, is convinced that Europe is still interested in Ukrainian gas storage, and he has called on EU countries to help protect gas storage facilities from Russian a... #GasstorageUkraine #Naftogaz #OilTransit #OleksiyChernyshov #RussianOil #UkraineGTS
AgricultureEconomy Wednesday, May 1 The export of agricultural products via the Black Sea corridor has reached pre-war levels. After the Russian Federation withdrew from the Black Sea Grain Initiative last summer, 1,300 ships have carried 25 million tons of farm products through the temporary sea route created by Ukraine and ... #agroexportukraine #GlobalFoodSecurity #GrainfromUkraine #UkraineMaritimeCorridor #Ukrainiangrain
AgricultureEconomy Wednesday, May 1 Global wheat prices dropped by 25%, and increased supply will continue to drive this trend. According to the World Bank, global wheat and corn prices fell to three-year lows in the first quarter of 2024. As a result, global prices for corn and wheat decreased compared to the previous quarter... #CornHarvest #Farmers #GlobalFoodSecurity #GrainHarvest #worldbank #WorldWheatPrices
Investments Wednesday, May 1 Despite the war, Kyiv International Airport seeks to attract potential investors. What conditions are considered? According to Volodymyr Kudak, the general manager of Master-Avia, the Kyiv Airport’s operating company, “We are trying to attract potential investors to develop the airport and grow its potentia... #investments #InvestmentsinUkraine #KyivAirport #MasterAvia #Ukraineairspace #UkraineReconstruction
FinancePoliticsWar Tuesday, April 30 The confiscation of Russian assets will help Ukraine to finance the war at least until the end of 2028. Despite the support from the US, Ukraine needs a medium-term financing plan to repel Russian aggression, and the main source of this financing must be Russia’s frozen assets. There is a high chance th... #RussianAssets #RussianAssetsConfiscation #UkraineBudget2024 #UkraineDefensePurchases #WarinUkraine
EconomyFinance Tuesday, April 30 The largest European banks increased their contributions to the Russian budget by 300%. The largest European banks that are still operating in Russia paid more than €800M in Russian taxes in 2023, which is 300% more than before the start of the full-scale war. In particular, we are talki... #DeutscheBank #EuropeanBanks #OTPbank #RaiffeisenBank #RussiaBudget
EconomyEnergy Tuesday, April 30 Leaders of Ukraine’s energy sector increased their revenues by 8%. The combined income of Ukraine’s top ten energy companies in 2023 amounted to almost ₴745.9B, 8% more than in 2022 (₴688.45B). Half of the companies in the top ten are state-owned, and four more... #D.Trading #Energoatom #energyukraine #SCMgroup #Ukrhydroenergo
EconomyInvestments Tuesday, April 30 Ukraine will auction its nationalized share of the Shell gas stations network. The Shell Oil Company is not the only potential buyer for the Shell-branded network of gas stations in Ukraine, which was recently nationalized. The State Property Fund of Ukraine announced that the n... #AllianceHolding #EduardKhudainatov #Nationalization #Shell #SPFU
EconomyFinance Tuesday, April 30 Demand for property insurance against war risk is growing in Ukraine. Ukrainian companies are developing new directions for property insurance during the war, but there will be no payments in the event of weapons of mass destruction being used. Currently, the largest Uk... #INGO #InsuranceCompanies #InsuranceUkraine #MilitaryRiskInsurance #WarRisks
AgricultureEconomy Tuesday, April 30 In the first quarter, the Ukrainian land market’s capitalization increased by $5.1B. KSE Agrocenter analysts stated that this was primarily due to the opening of the market to legal entities on January 1 of this year. It is noted that the former “moratorium lands” are in t... #agroUkraine #Capitalization #FarmLand #LandMarketUkraine #LandSalesUkraine
Economy Tuesday, April 30 Ukrainian metallurgists call for an end to the import of Russian iron and replacing it with Ukrainian and EU goods. The National Association of Extractive Industries of Ukraine (NADPU) called on the EU to take active measures to stop importing MMC products from the Russian Federation. It should be noted that the EU... #EUmarket #IronOreExport #MetallurgyRussia #SanctionsAgainstRussia #Ukrainianmetallurgy
EconomyEnergy Tuesday, April 30 Ukraine’s energy mix is greener than the EU’s energy mix; Ukraine can help Europe with decarbonization. The top manager of Metinvest, Andriy Kryl, noted that the Ukrainian and European metallurgical sectors face the same challenges. “We are talking about decarbonization, about the production of gr... #decarbonization #DecarbonizationUkraine #GreenMetallurgy #Metinvest #Ukrainianmetallurgy
Finance Tuesday, April 30 The devaluation of the national currency against the dollar will continue in 2024. According to analysis from the ICU: “Given the NBU’s desire for devaluation and increased exchange rate volatility, we have revised the year-end exchange rate forecast to ₴42.3 per $1 comp... #CurrencyLiberalization #financeUkraine #foreignexchangemarket #Hryvnia #hryvniadevaluation #nbu
EconomyReal Estate Tuesday, April 30 Kyiv will have a large-scale shortage of apartments in new buildings. According to developers, there is no shortage of new housing in Ukraine yet, but the prerequisites for its appearance are being formed, especially in Kyiv, where almost no new projects have appeared s... #eOselya #eVidnovlennya #MortgagesUkraine #RealEstateKyiv #RealEstateMarketUkraine