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During his visit to India, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to sign a number of trade and investment agreements, particularly in the fields of energy, uranium and critical resources.
Indian oil refineries have reduced their purchases of Russian oil to their lowest level since the end of 2022. Refining companies are refraining from signing new contracts and are shifting their focus to alternative suppliers.
The mobile application "112", created at the request of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine for almost 3 million hryvnias, has received numerous complaints and low ratings from users.
A new fraudulent scheme has emerged in Ukraine involving fake messages about alleged payments of 2,200 hryvnia from Oschadbank and NEC Ukrenergo. The perpetrators send such messages via instant messengers and attempt to gain access to citizens' bank accounts.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has lowered its economic growth forecast for Ukraine for 2026. The bank now expects GDP growth of only 2.5%, down from its previous forecast of 5%.
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the allocation of UAH 2 billion in subsidies for the purchase of school buses in 2026. These funds will enable communities to purchase more than 540 buses to transport students to educational institutions.
The state postal operator Ukrposhta plans to launch a new service, Ukrposhta.Apteka, by the end of March 2026, which will allow customers to order and receive medicines in all settlements where the company's branches operate.
The Cabinet of Ministers has decided to change the system for supplying schools with textbooks to ensure their timely delivery before the start of the school year. The new rules provide for clear deadlines for the preparation, competitive selection and printing of educational literature.
Families with children with disabilities in subgroup A can receive portable charging stations free of charge under a new state support programme. To do so, they must submit an application to the Pension Fund of Ukraine service centre.
As a result of Russian shelling of energy infrastructure, some consumers in four regions of Ukraine were left without electricity. In most regions, power restriction schedules and hourly blackouts are also in effect.
Large-scale road repairs in Ukraine are being postponed due to an acute shortage of funding. The available budget funds are only sufficient for emergency repairs and maintenance of key routes, while a full-scale restoration of the road network is currently impossible. This was announced by the head of the Restoration Agency, Serhiy Sukhomlyn, during a telethon.
Detectives from the Economic Security Bureau have notified seven members of an organised group that they are under suspicion of embezzling more than UAH 20.9 million in budget funds during the procurement of uninterruptible power supplies for traffic lights in Odesa.
