By Ukraine Rebuild News Staff, Sept 20, 2023 The European Bank of Reconstruction and Development plans to invest about 1.5 billion euros ($1.6 billion) per year in Ukraine this year and next but the figure could rise if reconstruction accelerates, EBRD President Odile Renaud-Basso said at an
By Ukraine Rebuild News Staff, Sept 19, 2023 Ukraine’s six deputy defense ministers were fired, a week after the toppling of their boss in a corruption scandal, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky flies to Washington, DC to meet US President Joe Biden and members of Congress to push for
By Ukraine Rebuild News Staff, Sept 19, 2023 The 27 foreign affairs ministers of European Union member nations will likely hold their Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Kyiv in early October to show support for Ukraine’s eventual integration into the union, Italian news agency Ansa reported, citing three unnamed
By Ukraine Rebuild News Staff, Sept 18, 2023 The new US special representative supporting the rebuilding of Ukraine said she will encourage investment in agriculture, green energy, steel, mining, critical materials and Ukraine's burgeoning IT sector as an important part of her duties. Penny Pritzker, the former US
By Ukraine Rebuild News Staff Sept 18, 2023 The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), a US-based think tank that focuses in part on the reconstruction of Ukraine, has launched a podcast series on the topic, with announced topics ranging from the role of small and medium businesses to
By Ukraine Rebuild News Staff, Sept 15, 2023 US President Joe Biden has named Penny Pritzker, a member of a billionaire Chicago business family who served as commerce secretary from 2013 to 2016, to a newly created role overseeing US efforts to help Ukraine rebuild and recover from the ongoing
By Ukraine Rebuild News Staff, Sept 15, 2023 The European Parliament passed a resolution calling on the European Union to freeze Belarusian assets and seek to transfer them to Ukraine to pay for reconstruction after the war with Russia, and asking the International Criminal Court (ICC) to issue an arrest
By Ukraine Rebuild News Staff, Sept 14, 2023 Most citizens of Western or Western-allied nations agree that their government should financially support the reconstruction of Ukraine and that the country should be allowed to join the European Union and Nato, according to a 14-nation survey. Some 69% say
By Ukraine Rebuild News Staff, Sept 14, 2023 The world’s most powerful nations should create a “war-risk pool” to restore Ukraine’s insurance industry and insure the companies, organizations and people seeking to undertake the reconstruction of Ukraine, said executives from companies owned by global private services firm
By Ukraine Rebuild News Staff, Sept 13, 2023 The number of Ukrainian companies planning new investments increased in the past year, along with the average size of the planned investment, but the outlook for investing has yet to return to pre-war levels, according to a survey by the European
By Ukraine Rebuild News Staff, Sept 12, 2023 Ukrainians trust Western companies and banks more than local firms to carry out reconstruction of the country after the war, according to an opinion poll published by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation and the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology. When asked
By Ukraine Rebuild News Staff, Sept 12, 2023 The Ukrainian government will cooperate with German firm Notus Energy to build a wind power plant in the Chornobyl exclusion zone, with the capacity to power 1,000 homes, Ukraine’s Environment Ministry said in a press release. Notus Energy has finished
Ukraine Rebuild Newswire Staff, Sept 11, 2023 Dream, the Ukrainian state portal meant to organize the reconstruction of the country, has entered closed beta testing for new features meant to help choose which projects to prioritize and create milestones for reconstructions works. The updates to the portal, which also now
Ukraine Rebuild Newswire Staff, Sept 11, 2023 South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol announced an aid package of $2.3 billion for the reconstruction of Ukraine, including $300 million in aid next year and $2 billion in low-cost loans from 2025, the Korea Times reported from the G20 summit
