After 35 years travelling the world for Bloomberg, The Associated Press and Brightwire, Adam founded Ukraine Rebuild Newswire to hold the West to its promise to "build Ukraine back better."
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) deployed a total of €2.4 billion in Ukraine in 2024, surpassing 2023's deployment of €2.1 billion. The priority areas for EBRD's support were energy, vital infrastructure, food security, trade and the private sector.
Ukraine's European allies are growing becoming cautiously optimistic that US President-elect Donald Trump will not pressure Kyiv into early negotiations with Russia, unnamed European officials said. The development comes after several rounds of private talks with members in Trump's administration, where European allies advocated for
The outgoing Biden administration in the US is making a last push to seize hundreds of billions of dollars in frozen Russian assets to use as leverage in future negotiations for peace in Ukraine, two unnamed senior administration officials said. One official said that seizing Russian assets would send a
The European Union has disbursed €3 billion to Ukraine's state budget as part of EU's contribution under the G7 Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration for Ukraine (ERA) initiative. The ERA initiative — which envisages the allocation of $50 billion to be allocated to Ukraine — will be backed by future
Slovakia is considering actions against Ukraine, including suspending aid, if a resolution is not reached regarding the halted Russian gas transit through Ukraine, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico stated on Thursday. The statement came after Fico's talks with European Union Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen. Fico accused Ukraine of
The European Investment Bank will use the DREAM platform, the state portal meant to organize the reconstruction of Ukraine, to allocate €100 million to support community recovery and development projects, DREAM said. Activities under the project include distributed generation facilities, municipal housing, water supply and sanitation, and healthcare.
The administration of Joe Biden announced $500 million assistance package to Ukraine, consisting of weapons and equipment needed for defense against Russia. The assistance, which is part of security assistance President Biden announced on Sept. 26, will be provided under the drawdowns from Department of Defense stocks.
McGill and Partners, Lloyd's Lab insuretech FortuneGuard, and ARX have partnered to launch a Ukraine War Risk Insurance Facility for commercial property and investments with $50 million limit per risk. The new limit is higher than existing ceiling for insurance, which provides "an unprecedented way and addressing
The Joe Biden administration is set to announce a final weapons aid package for Ukraine as part of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's visit to Germany on Thursday, two unnamed senior defense officials said. Austin will meet in Germany with representatives of around 50 partner nations who have come
A dispute between Bratislava and Kyiv over transit of Russian gas through Ukraine has escalated further after a proposed meeting with European Union officials on Tuesday was called off. Ukrainian and Slovak ministers, alongside European Commission officials, were scheduled to meet in Brussels to address the consequences of the termination
Iceland Foreign Minister Thorgerdur Katrin Gunnarsdottir met with Ukrainian Deputy Energy Minister Roman Andarak to discuss the development of geothermal energy in Ukraine and other issue related to the country's energy sector. The officials discussed the priority requirements for power equipment needed in restoration efforts, along with strategies
The Russian forces said they have captured the "important logistics hub" of Kurakhove in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region. The capture of the key industrial town Kurakhove would deprive Ukraine of "the ability of shelling peaceful residents of Donetsk … with artillery systems," said the Russian
The European Union and Ukraine have not started negotiating a new framework for agricultural trade, which is planned to come into force in June 2025 when the current temporary trade agreement expires, Euractiv reported, citing unnamed Ukrainian sources. The current autonomous trade measures (ATMs), introduced in 2022 following the Russian
Australia has pledged to provide a total of AUD 76 million ($47.42 million) in new aid to Ukraine and announced the reopening of its embassy in Kyiv during a visit by ustralian Minister of Foreign Affairs Penny Wong to Kyiv. The funding includes AUD 66 million via the European
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Ukraine has partnered with the Ukrainian Ministry of Education and Science to analyze the country's educational infrastructure and develop a reconstruction concept for Ukrainian schools. The project, which included financial support from the German government, proposed improvements focusing on wartime challenges,
Japan's Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Hiromasa Nakano announced the establishment of a Coordination Council for the reconstruction of Ukraine, which will include Ukrainian and Japanese businesses. The announcement came during a meeting attended by Ukraine's Minister of Economy Yulia Svyrydenko in Japan, the
