Economy
Norway announced an aid package for Ukraine for 2026 as part of the Nansen Programme
Ukraine will receive $9 billion in funding from Norway for 2026 for military and civilian needs. This was announced by Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko after a meeting with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre in Kyiv.
The state provides charging stations free of charge: who is eligible and how to obtain one
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.
Road repairs require 90 billion hryvnia, but only 10 billion is available.
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.
Panama took control of two ports near the canal in a dispute with Hong Kong's CK Hutchison
The Panamanian authorities revoked the concessions granted to Hong Kong-based Panama Ports Company to operate the Balboa and Cristobal terminals near the Panama Canal and transferred them to other operators for temporary management. CK Hutchison declared the decisions unlawful and threatened legal action.
The war against Ukraine has changed Russia's economy, but at a significant cost
About half of Russia's federal budget is currently spent on military and security-related expenditures. Economists believe that such a concentration of resources undermines the country's long-term development.
Ukraine has opened its first defence factory in the United Kingdom — Zaluzhny
The first Ukrainian defence plant has begun operations in the United Kingdom — a production complex owned by Ukrspecsystems, a company specialising in the creation of unmanned systems for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The launch was announced by Valery Zaluzhny, Ukraine's ambassador to the United Kingdom.
In February, Nazar Konstantinov, head of the capital's ESBU, received almost half a million hryvnia in salary.
In February, Nazar Konstantinov, head of the territorial administration of the Economic Security Bureau in Kyiv, received a salary of 481,501 hryvnia. The official received almost the same amount from the ESBU for the entire year 2024.
The Council adopted draft law No. 14303 on compensation for infrastructure workers
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted in the first reading and as a whole draft law No. 14303, which improves the procedure for paying one-time financial assistance to critical infrastructure workers who have suffered or died as a result of Russia's war against Ukraine.
The Rada has registered draft law No. 14110-d on restrictions on nicotine pouches.
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine has registered draft law No. 14110-d, which provides for restrictions on the circulation of nicotine pouches and has already drawn criticism from some military personnel.
Reuters analytics: Transneft reduced oil pumping after drone strike
The Russian company Transneft has reduced oil intake into its pipeline system by approximately 250,000 barrels per day following an attack by Ukrainian drones on a key pumping station.
13 million hryvnia in 5 years: how much Leshchenko earned at Ukrzaliznytsia
Serhiy Leshchenko, a member of the supervisory board of Ukrzaliznytsia, received 13.1 million hryvnias in remuneration for his work at the state-owned company from 2020 to 2024.
In Ukraine, every building without a condominium association will have a new legal entity created for it.
The Ministry of Community and Territorial Development of Ukraine has developed a draft law that provides for the creation of a new legal entity for each apartment building where no condominium association has been established.
