InvestmentsinUkraine

Friday, October 21

The war in Ukraine is not an embargo on investments. Ukraine’s political and military support should go hand in hand with the necessary economic backing to overcome all wartime challenges and ensure stable living conditions for citizens, said Mini...

Thursday, October 13

Ukraine and the World Bank have discussed the creation of a new mechanism for attracting funds for Ukraine’s reconstruction. Minister of Finance of Ukraine Serhiy Marchenko met with the World Bank Vice President for Europe and Central Asia. The parties discussed the funding sources for the 2023 state budget, the continuatio...

Friday, October 7

The Advantage Ukraine platform received more than 250 requests from investors. Since the launch of the Advantage Ukraine investment platform, more than 250 requests from potential investors have been received, announced the Ministry of Economy. Currently, the Advantage Ukraine ...

Tuesday, September 27

Horizon Capital created a new fund for investment in Ukrainian companies. The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, took part in the signing ceremony of a document regarding participation in the financing of the Horizon Capital Growth Fund IV. This is a new fund create...

Friday, September 23

The IFC has allocated $30M for investment in Ukraine and Moldova. The International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the structure of the World Bank, has allocated $30M for investments in Ukraine and Moldova, the Ministry of Economy reported. The money will be dir...

Thursday, September 22

EU businesses continue investing in Ukrainian startups. Lars Seier Christensen, CEO of Seier Capital International, is looking for blockchain startups in Ukraine despite the war, reported TechUkraine. Lars Seier Christensen, who is also the chairman and f...

Wednesday, September 21

Several mechanisms for attracting investors will be launched in Ukraine. As the Deputy Minister of Economy Oleksandr Hryban clarified, one of them will be implemented in cooperation with the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), which has already allocated $30M ...

Tuesday, September 20

Zelenskyy turns to BlackRock for advice on attracting money to Ukraine. The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest investment company, discussed how BlackRock’s financial market consulting departmen...

Friday, September 16

Investment and support for Ukraine were the main topics at Economic Ramstein. Investment in Ukraine’s economy and support for exports became the main issues discussed at the G7 trade ministers’ summit in Germany, which was referred to as Economic Ramstein. During th...

Monday, September 12

The Ministry of Economy expects billion-dollar investments from the world’s leading businesses. The Minister of Economy of Ukraine, Yulia Svyridenko, held a series of meetings with US companies Steel, NuScale, JPMorgan, General Electric, MUFG Bank, Honeywell, Halliburton, Mastercard Inc, among o...

Tuesday, August 30

Ukraine will introduce insurance for investments during the war. The Cabinet of Ministers is working on a mechanism for investment insurance during martial law, which will allow investors to guarantee the safety of capital investments in Ukrainian assets, the Minis...

Monday, August 29

Ukraine plans to accelerate investments in new processing enterprises. The government has approved a draft law that simplifies permitting procedures for acquiring the right to land and starting construction for economic recovery projects, the Ministry of Economy reporte...

Wednesday, August 10

The development and implementation of investment projects within the framework of the investment nanny program have been simplified. The investment nannies mechanism provides for the assignment of specialized employees for large investors, who help overcome bureaucratic problems and provide general information and guidance. These ...

Ukraine’s investment attractiveness rating has fallen to its lowest level since 2013. In the first half of 2022 Ukraine’s investment attractiveness index decreased by half a point and amounted to 2.17 points out of a possible 5, which is the lowest value since 2013, reported the EBA. ...

Thursday, February 3

The government has allocated UAH1.17B for infrastructure projects in nine regions. The government has allocated a subvention from the state budget to implement projects under the “Emergency Loan Program for the Reconstruction of Ukraine” from the European Investment Ban...

Tuesday, February 1

The Dnipropetrovsk region is among the leaders attracting foreign investments. According to the results for the first three quarters of 2021, the Dnipropetrovsk region attracted the most foreign investments among all regions of Ukraine. The region’s investment volume grew by 15...

Friday, January 28

Denmark will allocate €73M for investment projects in Ukraine. Denmark has agreed to consider additional support options to ensure Ukraine’s financial and economic stability, said Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba after a meeting with Dan...

Wednesday, January 19

New potential projects worth more than $2B will come to Ukraine. The UkraineInvest office, which provides support to large investors, has already received applications for potential projects totaling more than $2B. According to Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, “Ukrain...

Friday, November 19

The EU plans to provide Ukraine with up to €7 bln in investments in seven years, reported Interfax. The EU has adopted an economic investment plan for three regions: the Eastern Partnership, the Western Balkans, and the Southern Neighborhood. Ukraine hopes to mobil...

Wednesday, October 6

The Black Sea Trade and Development Bank has approved 53 investment projects in Ukraine valued at €842.7 mln. Full funding has already been allocated for 48 projects valued at €776.2 mln in Ukraine. “This confirms the status of Ukraine as an active participant in international economic relations”, said the De...

Tuesday, October 5

Foreign direct investment in Ukraine in the first half of 2021 reaches record levels for the first time in four years. “In the first half of 2021, foreign direct investment in Ukraine amounted to $ 2.83 billion, of which $ 2.33 billion came from the European Union. Investment growth in the first half of the year...

Wednesday, September 29

Dragon Capital Acquires VIKING Business Center In Lviv. The A-class business center is located in downtown Lviv, at the intersection of Zelena and Pymonenko in the Sykhiv district. The total area of 18,766 square meters and parking for 102 vehicles. “This ...

Tuesday, September 21

Foreign direct investment growth in Ukraine. UkraineInvest has already received applications for almost $ 2 billion of investment, announced its CEO, Sergiy Tsivkach. In the first half of the year, foreign direct investments increased by $ 2.7 b...

Wednesday, September 15

UkraineInvest has received 23 project applications from potential investors totaling more than $ 2 billion. “There are investment nannies in Ukraine. UkraineInvest has been identified as a key institution with nine team members guiding large investment projects. To date, 23 investors have applied to t...

When should we expect foreign investors? “There are more foreign investors coming to us. I hope Concorde Capital and I will become pioneers in the sense of attracting Western investments to Ukraine. I’m sure we’re going to have a...

Thursday, August 26

Saudi Arabians interested in Ukrainian startups. The CEO of the TaibahVally investment campaign and one of the leaders of the national investment program “Saudi Vision 2030”, is in Ukraine looking for profitable and innovative areas for ...

Thursday, July 1

International investors with 23 projects totaling $1.35 billion have applied for ‘investment nannies’ with UkraineInvest, announced Serhiy Tsivkach, the Executive Director of the investment promotion office (Interfax-Ukraine). The office has 14 employees working on the project, which is designed to cut red tape. This mon...

Monday, May 24

The government hopes to increase foreign investment from $420 million last year, to $3 billion this year, to $15 billion by 2025, according to the National Economic Strategy 2030 posted last week on the government’s website. Other goals for 2030 are: double the economy; triple exports to $150 billion; nearly triple labor product...

Wednesday, April 14

“How Ukraine Lost it Investment Paradise,” headlined an article in the National Interest that blames the nation’s plummeting foreign investment on “Ukrainian authorities [falling] into the same trap of keeping their system semi-reformed, leavi...

Tuesday, April 6

Capital investment by cross border investors in Ukraine decreased by $868 million last year, the first decline of Incoming Investment since 2015, Bohdan Danylyshyn, Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine wrote on Facebook. He said: “The key reasons for the low interest of foreign investors in the Ukrainian economy are the weak and underdevelo...

Friday, April 2

Concorde Capital plans to bring 10 Ukrainian companies to initial public offerings over the next two years, Concorde CEO Ihor Mazepa said recently at the IPO presentation of Veres Rivne People’s {Football] Club. Citing changes in Ukraine’s financial markets, the Concorde founder said: “What I have seen for ...

Monday, January 11

By the end of next year, Ukrhydroenergo plans to put into operation at its hydro plants energy storage systems with capacity of 212 MW By the end of next year, Ukrhydroenergo plans to put into operation at its hydro plants energy storage systems with capacity of 212 MW and solar power plants with a capacity of 65 MW, says Ihor Syrota...

DTEK is opening “an investment hub” in London to attract investments for renewable energy projects in the Ukraine and in the EU, DTEK is opening “an investment hub” in London to attract investments for renewable energy projects in the Ukraine and in the EU, the company reports. “We created a hub to attract investment in new ene...

Turkey and Ukraine are working on “more than 30 joint projects” for production of military equipment, Turkey and Ukraine are working on “more than 30 joint projects” for production of military equipment, Ukraine’s Ambassador to Turkey Andrii Sybiha says in a lengthy written said interview with Defense...

A Turkey-Ukraine-Poland container route is in the pipeline for 2021 A Turkey-Ukraine-Poland container route is in the pipeline for 2021 as Ukrferry and Ferrplus have signed an agreement with Ukrzaliznytsia’s Lisky terminal in Kyiv. In a multimodal route, containers wi...

On the first anniversary of the shootdown of the UIA passenger jet over Tehran On the first anniversary of the shootdown of the UIA passenger jet over Tehran, Ukraine joined Afghanistan, Canada, Sweden the UK in stating: “Our countries will hold Iran to account to deliver justic...

Ryanair is suspending about 70% of its flights out of Kyiv Borsypil until April Ryanair is suspending about 70% of its flights out of Kyiv Borsypil until April, according to an analysis of the discount airline’s booking system by avianews.com. Until spring, only three out o...

Gazprom re-starts construction of Nord Stream 2 on Friday Gazprom re-starts construction of Nord Stream 2 on Friday, using a flotilla of three Russian boats capable of finishing the Russia to Germany gas line by May, The Financial Times reports from Moscow a...

“The US sanctions will delay the launch of the project, but will not stop its completion,” “The US sanctions will delay the launch of the project, but will not stop its completion,” predicts Naz Masraff, Europe director at Eurasia Group. “Ultimately, Moscow, with the help of Berlin, will fi...

With Russian gas transit across Ukraine only guaranteed through 2024, Ukraine’s pipeline operator is negotiating alternatives: With Russian gas transit across Ukraine only guaranteed through 2024, Ukraine’s pipeline operator is negotiating alternatives: storage of gas from new LNG terminals in the Baltic and Adriatic, and tra...

Pro-Russian politicians promoting Russia’s coronavirus vaccine are making advances as the West delays sending its own vaccines to Ukraine Pro-Russian politicians promoting Russia’s coronavirus vaccine are making advances as the West delays sending its own vaccines to Ukraine, The New York Times reports in a story headlined: “In Vaccine ...

Alfa-Bank Ukraine forecasts the 2020 year-end foreign direct investment figure will be $0.00 billion Alfa-Bank Ukraine forecasts the 2020 year-end foreign direct investment figure will be $0.00 billion. By contrast, net FDI inflow was $5.2 billion in 2019 and $4.5 billion in 2018.

Lack of rule of law, unpaid debts to solar and wind investors, and last year’s purge of internationally-known reformers from government make for bleak prospects for inbound investment this year Lack of rule of law, unpaid debts to solar and wind investors, and last year’s purge of internationally-known reformers from government make for bleak prospects for inbound investment this year, Ander...