Tech

Tuesday, October 5

Air taxi from Kharkiv. Kharkiv FED has signed agreements with European industrial firms to implement an air taxi project. The announcement was reported in the Kharkiv Region administration press service. Working with the pa...

Crypto ownership in Ukraine is a higher investment in this currency than in the US. As of 2021, Ukraine tops the ranking, beating the US. It is estimated that over 5.5 million people, 12.7% of Ukraine’s total population, currently own cryptocurrency (ukrinform). According to Triple-A...

Monday, October 4

You can buy and return a Ukrzaliznytsia ticket on the Viber and Telegram social networks. “From October 1, UZ passengers will be able to purchase tickets for all long-distance trains, including high-speed and regional routes, in the official chatbot on Viber and Tele...

Technology companies have the best opportunity to attract strategic investors. “Quantitative changes in technology, the introduction of state-of-the-art solutions based on “smart systems”, associated with the widespread introduction of so-called smart, cyber-physical...

Friday, October 1

New automatic weight control fines are being introduced in Ukraine There will be 140 weight control complexes on Ukrainian highways by the end of 2021. From today, new automatic fines are introduced for violation of the norms of dimensional and weight control said th...

Wednesday, September 29

Ukroboronprom presented a list of Russian-made goods that require import substitution. “As of 2014, our enterprises depended on Russian-made components for more than 12,000 items of various types of products,” said Procurement Director of Ukroboronprom, Roman Avramov. Today,...

ABB’s E-mobility division strengthens global leadership with investment in Ukrainian startup GO TO-U. As part of its strategy to drive broader adoption of electric vehicles around the world, ABB’s E-mobility business has announced its investment in Los Angeles-based startup GO TO-U. Founded in 2017, G...

Monday, September 27

Ukraine aims to digitize all public services and to switch to a paperless economy. The announcement was made by Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal during a Government meeting held on September 22. Shmyhal considers this is the best way to overcome bureaucracy, domestic corruption and abus...

Friday, September 24

Ukraine startups presenting at World Web Summit. The event takes place in Lisbon, Portugal between November 1-4. Web Summit brings together the people and companies redefining the global tech industry, and this year the event expects 70,000 visitors...

Turkish unmanned combat aerial vehicles (drones) to be produced in Ukraine. Ukraine’s Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said there will be an announcement when the heads of both states meet 112.international. The construction of the Turkish medium-altitude long-endurance comba...

Tuesday, September 21

The Deputy Chairman of the Fund, Yuliya Byelova, announced that the new Automatic Real Estate Valuation Service has already issued 380 thousand certificates. The Automatic Real Estate Valuation Service is an innovative product that allows users to quickly and free of charge receive certificates with the appraised value of their real estate. The Valuation S...

The draft State Space Program of Ukraine for 2021-2025. The government committee approved the draft State Space Program of Ukraine for 2021-2025. Among the main tasks of the Program are the creation of space Earth observation systems, the introduction of s...

Kharkiv’s IT success shows the way for other Ukrainian cities. Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, is well on its way to becoming a major regional IT powerhouse, according to a new report from the Kharkiv IT Cluster. Carried out in partnership with KPMG, the ...

Monday, September 20

New Technology Park in Kyiv planned. The National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (NaUKMA) together with the Bureau of Investment Programs (BIP) NGO are planning to create a technology park in an educational building located at 2/4, Glazu...

NovaPay payment system becomes a partner of Visa and MasterCard. The NovaPay payment system has become a member of the international payment systems Visa and MasterCard. The company claims that NovaPay is the first among private non-bank financial institutions to h...

Ukrainian startup GitLab has applied for an IPO on the US stock exchange. So far, GitLab has attracted more than $ 400 million in investment. The initial public offering will take place on the US Stock Exchange NASDAQ. Placement will take place under the GTLB ticker. In 201...

Thursday, September 16

The share of the IT industry in the Ukrainian economy is 4% of GDP. The government wants to focus on this industry and significantly increase revenues. According to the results of 10 years, the percentage increased in the IT industry, to 4.9% in 2020 and to 5.6% in th...

Tuesday, September 14

The application “Diia” will protect consumers against fraud, and provide services. The mobile application “Action” will warn users about credit fraudsters will be available through “Diia”. It will also allow users to complete the process to receive social pay...

Monday, September 13

Strategic enterprises such as Motor Sich will remain Ukrainian said President Zelensky. Ukraine welcomes foreign business investments, but strategic enterprises must remain under state control. As for Ukraine’s strategic enterprises that have existed over t...

Wednesday, September 8

Ukraine enters the top 5 of global crypto-asset perception. It’s now in 4th place in the rating of the global crypto-asset perception index in 2021, compiled by the US analytical company Chainalysis after Vietnam, India, and Pakistan.

Cryptocurrency currency trading is around UAH bln per day. Maksym Demianiuk, the Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister and the Minister of Digital Transformation, added that “the Ministry of Digital Transformation has set itself the task of providing regulatio...

Monday, September 6

US – Ukraine Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement extended. On September 1 the latest extension of the bilateral Science and Technology Agreement entered into force. According to the US State Department, it will address advancing progress on Ukraine’s sustaina...

Thursday, September 2

Master Agreement on Research, Development, Testing and Evaluation Projects signed. Its purpose is to deepen bilateral cooperation in science, technology, and military-technical areas, and contribute to the development of an international legal base for the conclusion of contracts on...

MOU on space-related cooperation concluded between Ukraine’s State Space Agency and the US Department of Defense Space Command. Corresponding to Ukraine’s participation in the US-led Artemis space program, it covers space fligh...

Wednesday, September 1

Motor Sich and Antonov sign UAH 920 million agreement. Motor Sich has signed a major contract with Antonov aimed at increasing engine life for the Mriya and Ruslan cargo aircraft, Defense Express reports. According to the ProZorro site, the expected volum...

Wednesday, August 18

Ukrainian-made engines yesterday powered a European Vega rocket into space yesterday, allowing the launch of five satellites into orbits. Designed and manufactured in Dnipro by the Yuzhmash, the engines were transported to Kourou, French Guyana for launching the Italian-made rocket. Th...

NASA launched a Ukrainian-powered Antares rocket last week to the International Space Station, carrying 3,724 kg of cargo, the US space agency reports. Dnirpo’s Yuzhmash engines powered the Northrop Grumman rocket carrying a Cygnus resupply spacecraft. Video on PBS NewsHour shows a smooth launch. This is the 15th Antares ...

By December, a Dutch company, Isilaunch, is to launch Ukraine’s Sich-2-30 satellite from a Space X launch pad in the US , according to a contract signed with the satellite maker, Yuzhnoye Design Bureau. The remote sensing, near earth orbit satellite is one of seven satellites that Ukraine’s Space Agency plans to launch...

Ukraine and Turkey can carry out joint space projects, Volodymyr Taftay, head of Ukraine’s Space Agency, told Turkey’s Anaadolu Agency. With cooperation, a space rocket or satellite co-produced by Ukraine and Turkey can be sent into space, said Taftay, wh...

Monday, August 16

The Zaporizhia Automobile Building Plant, or ZAZ, is to start assembling Mercedes-Benz buses, board chairman Nikolay Evdokimenko announced. Equipped with Mercedes engines and transmissions the 36-seat are to be built for sale in Ukraine and for export. In a larger joint venture with European m...

A Ukrainian-designed and manufactured electric motorcycle, the Dnepr, set a world speed record in its class last week at the Bonneville Speed Week in Utah. Powered by 36 batteries cranking out 100 kW power, the equivalent to 134 hp, the Delfast Dnepr hit 104.78 mph, or 168.62 kph. The rider was was Serhii Malyk, a Ukrainian racer. Christian Curmei writes...

Wednesday, August 4

Poland and Ukraine are the primary beneficiaries of the exodus of up to 20% of Belarus’ 70,000 IT workers over the last year, AFP reports in a story headlined “Belarus IT sector hit by exodus after post-vote crackdown.” Massive protests erupted last August after Alexander Lukashenko declared himself president after election ...

Nervous about the brain drain to Ukraine, Belarus’ government may be behind Monday’s murder in Kyiv of Vitaliy Shyshov, exiles told the UBN yesterday. Shyshov ran Belarusian House, an NGO devoted to helping Belarusia emigrants find work and housing in Ukraine. For the last year, Ukraine’s Ministry of Digitalization has...

Tuesday, July 27

Canada and Ukraine are preparing a project to produce a modernized version of the An-74TK-200 mixed cargo and passenger jet for international markets, focusing on North America, Ukroboronprom reports. In March, Kyiv’s Antonov opened Antonov Aircraft Canada in Montréal, the business capital of Québec. The largest of Canada’s 10 provinces, Québec is a...

Under a proposed bilateral cooperation document, “design and final assembly” of the jet would be done in Québec, Desmond Burke, head of Gold Leaf Aviation, an Ontario company representing Antonov’s interests in Canada, tells Le Devoir newspaper. Appropriate for Canada, the Soviet-designed aircraft operates...

Monday, July 19

By 2025, the EU plans to make batteries for 6 to 8 million electric cars per year. To build this industry, “investments in the sector reached more than €120 billion in 2019 and 2020 alone – that is three times more than in China,” Maroš Šefčovič, the European Commission’s Vice-Presi...

Friday, July 16

Culminating a three-year effort, yesterday the Rada gave final approval to two bills designed to stimulate in Ukraine the manufacture of electric cars, components and chargers. For the next five years, VAT taxes are suspended on the import cars powered by electricity, methane or biogas. For the next 10 years, VAT taxes are suspended on the import of equipment to produce elec...

Tuesday, July 13

During the 2020s, South Korea plans to invest $35 billion in the development of electric car batteries , reports 3dnews. “LG Energy Solution, SK Innovation and Samsung SDI are key players in the battery market, and are planning to invest both in battery technology research and in manufacturing itself,”...

Ukraine’s defense ministry said hackers linked to the Russian government attacked the website of the Ukrainian Naval Forces on Friday, posting fake reports about the international Sea Breeze-2021 military drills. The official website was restored within hours. The two-week naval exercise involved units from 32 countries, including 5,...

Monday, July 12

“The largest crypto farm in Ukraine” was discovered last week in a warehouse adjacent to facilities of Vinnytsiaoblenergo, a regional electricity provider, reports Ukraine’s State Security Service, or SBU. The service released photos of the warehouse, with 3,800 PlayStation 4 consoles stacked from floor to ceiling. The SB...

Friday, July 9

A full plan, dated June 2020 “includes a ‘roadmap’ for the creation of a ‘vertically integrated aviation defense consortium’ that could bring $10 billion in revenues and investment, ” Time reports. The project lost momentum after Trump lost the election and Prince’s two main associates in Ukraine came under criminal investigation in New York. Prince’s sister, Betsy De Vos, steppe...

The websites of President Zelenskiy, the State Security Service and other institutions were hit by cyber attacks on Tuesday afternoon, the state service for special communication said yesterday. The outages last only a few hours. The Service did not say who was behind the attack. In the past, Kyiv has accused Russia of orchestrating ...

Thursday, July 1

Apple opened an official office in Ukraine yesterday, Digital Transformation Minister Mykhailo Fedorov writes on Telegram. Through a future network of official dealers, Apple will sell imported equipment and provide authorized service and parts.

Tuesday, June 29

Data risk of the government’s Diia app is mitigated by the fact that the increasingly popular ‘government-in-a-smartphone’ app does not store data, but only displays encrypted information from other government registries, , Ian Bateson writes on Rest of the World site about Ukraine’s effort to cut government paperwork. “Diia has also passed two penetration tests, organized with the assistance of the Estonian e-Governan...

Monday, June 28

Antonov Airlines’ An-225 Mriya, the world’s largest cargo plane, took part in the NATO drawdown from Afghanistan last week, carrying three British Royal Air Force Puma helicopters from Kabul to Karachi, Pakistan, and on to RAF station Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, the RAF reports. In six years in Afghanistan, this non-combat ...

Thursday, June 17

Yesterday Ukraine’s cyber police announced that they arrested six hackers behind a major ransom ware gang that had targeted international institutions, including four US universities , reports NBC News. In raids on 21 homes in the Kyiv region, police arrested seized computers, luxury cars and $185,000 in cash. The American targets of the Cl0p gang included: Stanford University, Un...

With 73% of Ukrzaliznytsia rail tickets now sold online, UZ plans to launch a cellphone mobile app by the end of this year, said Alexander Pertsovsky, Director of the state railroad’s passenger division. Within a year, Ukrainians could buy half of all tickets through smartphones, the railroad operator has predicted.

Next week, Motor Sich Airlines plans to sign a deal with Ukroboronprom for the completion of construction and leasing of two An-140 regional turboprops , reported Interfax-Ukraine. Once completed at the Kharkiv aviation plant, the 52-seat planes would become the backbone of an expanded domestic route network for Motor Sich. Ukreximbank is financing t...

Tuesday, June 15

Italy’s Ferrovie Dello Stato Italiane SPA is working with UZ to prepare by the end of this year a feasibility study for high speed trains in Ukraine, UZ acting CEO Ivan Yuryk has announced. Construction of a high-speed network linking Lviv, Kyiv, Dnipro, Odesa and Kharkiv would cost as estimated $15 billion and would be completed by 2030. Italy fas...

With the Boryspil Airport Express train achieving 71% occupancies in June, Ukrzaliznytsia is increasing the trains to 22 a day. There are now hourly departures between 5:30 am and 9:30 pm. The 40-minute ride includes stops at: Darnytsia, the suburban rail station, and Vydubychi, the transit hub with a Green line Metro stop and...