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The Dutch government plans to reserve €3.5B to continue supporting Ukraine in 2026, according to Prime Minister Dick Schoof. The funds will provide assistance next year, but they can be utilized this year if necessary. The Netherlands has already allocated a similar amount for support through 2025. Schoof specified that €700M will be directed toward investments in drone production for Ukraine, including at facilities in Ukraine. Meanwhile, Australia has contributed an additional €6M to the Ukraine Energy Support Fund. These

On December 4, the EBRD will approve a loan of up to €180M to Ukrzaliznytsia to finance the purchase and installation of equipment for small gas-fired generation with a total capacity of up to 270 MW. This will help the company to solve electricity shortage problems and ensure an uninterrupted supply of energy to the population and enterprises. The project’s total cost is estimated at €248M. The German Ministry of Economics is providing €65M to repair Ukrainian energy infrastructure through

Wheat futures increased by 2.2% after Ukraine announced that a Russian missile hit a grain tanker in the Black Sea. Wheat futures rose to $5.9175 per bushel, the highest price since July 2024. 68.6 million tons of cargo have been transported during the Ukrainian Maritime Corridor’s 13 months of operation, including 46 million tons of grain. More than 2,500 ships have exported products to 46 countries through use of the corridor. Minister of Infrastructure Oleksiy Kuleba noted that despite the

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 its international partners. Ukraine’s Ambassador to the UN, Serhiy Kyslytsia, said: “This exceeds the volume of exports for the entire year of the Black Sea Grain Initiative’s operation”. During this period, exports traveled to 40 countries and have already reached pre-war volumes, while Ukraine works to increase throughput.

The UK will contribute £20M to the Trust Fund for the Support of the Reconstruction and Economy of Ukraine (SURE), launched by MIGA. This contribution will reduce project risks and attract much-needed private investment to Ukraine. MIGA can collectively insure $100M in new investment in Ukraine. Meanwhile, the German Credit Institution for Reconstruction (KfW) finalized a €50M grant with Ukraine to refinance the Affordable Credits 5-7-9% program. The funds will be used to offset the interest rate. Norway will allocate

The International Grain from Ukraine Summit was held in Kyiv on the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor of 1932-1933. Lithuania will provide €2M within the framework of the initiative by the end of the year and will increase the transit capacity of the Baltic ports for Ukrainian exports, Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrid Šimonite said at a joint press conference with the presidents of Ukraine and Switzerland. The leader of Switzerland, Alain Berset, emphasized that his country joined the Grain from

As President Zelenskyy stated, Ukraine can create hubs for millions of tons of grain annually in sensitive areas. According to him, Ukraine has already started negotiations on such possibilities. This will help prevent any upheavals in the world food market. Zelenskyy also emphasized that Ukraine will never give up its role as a guarantor of global food security. “No one expected us to be able to push the Russian fleet out of our Black Sea waters and provide more space

These losses will be significant due to the ban on transit and a stoppage of the Grain Initiative, said the head of the parliamentary committee on Finance, Danylo Hetmantsev. According to him, Hungary and Poland accounted for 14% of all agricultural exports in the year’s first quarter. In addition, if other border countries, primarily Romania, join the ban, the export losses will be greater. According to 2022 results, Romania was the second country after Poland in terms of the value

The country demands additional protection for its agricultural producers and reminds the EC about the €16.75M provided in the EC’s crisis reserve. The state’s position was voiced by the Minister of Agriculture of Bulgaria, Yavor Genov, at a working group meeting on the export of grain from Ukraine. “We remain in solidarity with Ukraine, but we observe serious problems.” As a result, the minister noted that Bulgaria asked the European Commission to take anti-crisis measures and take a more balanced

Over the weekend, 30,000 tons of humanitarian grain were sent to Yemen as part of the program with the help of the US, Spain, and France. US Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink emphasized that 65% of wheat exports under the Black Sea Grain Initiative is given to developing countries. The Ambassador of Spain to Ukraine announced that the government will allocate €14.4M in addition to the previously announced, more than €236.5M for the Grain from Ukraine initiative. France will also

The first vessel from the humanitarian program Grain from Ukraine departed with 25,000 tons of Ukrainian wheat bound for Ethiopia on Saturday, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s office. The statement said that Ukraine plans to send over 60 more ships to Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Congo, Kenya, and Yemen as part of the initiative. The first ship arrived at the port of Doraleh in Djibouti on Saturday en route to landlocked Ethiopia. Moreover, in the past two days, nine

More than 30 countries and international organizations have declared their support for the humanitarian program Grain from Ukraine, launched by the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Japan and the Republic of Korea announced their support for the initiative through financial assistance. Other countries that have already joined the initiative are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Greece, Estonia, the EU, Ireland, Spain, Italy, Canada, Qatar, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, the US, Turkey, Hungary, Finland, France,

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has proposed to Ukraine’s partners to expand the grain export initiative to the Mykolaiv and Olvia ports in the Mykolaiv region. “Our export grain initiative should be extended indefinitely, regardless of when the war ends. We can increase exports by another million tons per month. For this purpose, I propose to expand the export grain initiative to our other ports, Mykolaiv and Olvia,” said the President of Ukraine. Zelenskyy also called on the G20 summit

Britain will provide technology to test wheat in order to prevent Ukrainian grain stolen by Russia in the temporarily occupied territories from entering the world market. According to British Environment Minister George Justis, the British government is cooperating with Kyiv to provide land routes for the safe export of wheat. He added, “We are looking at what we can do to help repair the railways, look at the land bridge so we can transport that wheat across the land border

To address the global food crisis caused by Russia’s seaport blockade, Ukraine is increasing its grain exports across its western borders by 50% every month, announced the Ministry of Infrastructure. The Ministry stated that in the present blockade conditions, they are working daily on reorientating their export logistics to land and away from the sea, particularly to the western borders of Ukraine with Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Moldova. Ukraine is rushing to export the previous year’s harvest because its

 So far, no concrete agreements have been reached on holding quadripartite talks with Ukraine, Russia, Türkiye`, and the United Nations to resolve the issue of grain exports from Ukrainian seaports blocked by Russia, stated Foreign Ministry spokesman Oleh Nikolenko. “Ukraine welcomes the efforts of the UN Secretary-General to resolve the issue of exporting grain from the Ukrainian seaports blocked by Russia. Expert consultations between stakeholders are ongoing. However, no concrete agreements have been reached,” Nikolenko said. Earlier this week, Turkish

 The United States is working with its European allies to export grain from Ukraine by rail, including building granaries on Ukraine’s border, announced US President Joe Biden. “We are working closely with our European partners to bring 20 million tons of grain that is stuck in Ukraine to the market to reduce global food prices,” he added. “The US is working on a plan to export grain through other countries by rail. Ukraine has a different track width from the

 A vessel carrying 18,000 tons of Ukrainian corn has arrived at the Spanish port of La Coruna, the first batch of Ukrainian grain delivered by a new route across the Baltic Sea to avoid Russian ports blocked by Russia. This is the first batch of Ukrainian grain to reach northwestern Spain by sea, using “a new sea route opened in the Baltic Sea to avoid a Russian naval blockade of Ukraine’s ports on the Black Sea,” the Agafac feed group

 According to the Kirovohrad Regional Department of Agriculture, “Wheat, oats, and corn were sown on 100% of the planned areas at last year’s level. The region has planted 9% more barley, 6% more peas, and 3% more rapeseed,” the statement reads. It is noted that all 2,000 farms have completed sowing. The shortage of fuel and lubricants as well as lost storage facilities due to shelling have not stopped Ukrainian farmers. Grain growers in the Kirovohrad region currently predict a

The United States, the EU, and Poland will do everything possible to help Kyiv export Ukrainian grain to world markets. This has not been possible due to the Russian blockade of Ukrainian seaports. At a joint press conference in Warsaw, this issue was discussed by the EU Commissioner for Agriculture, Janusz Wojciechowski, Minister of Agriculture of Ukraine Mykola Solsky, Poland’s minister Henryk Kowalczyk, and US minister Tom Wilsek. The parties will try to solve the main problem quickly by crossing