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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Bloomberg LP founder Michael Bloomberg and other US business notables at a private roundtable to talk about the reconstruction of Ukraine, various US media outlets reported, citing unnamed sources. The Thursday afternoon meeting, organized by
GE Vernova has agreed to work on the $1 billion restoration of the Kakhovka hydro power dam in Ukraine that was destroyed in an explosion in June, Ukraine's state-owned power producer Ukrhydroenergo said. Vernova, the renewable energy business created in the historic split of General Electric announced last
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 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 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 Business
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 The Netherlands government said it will offer subsidies totaling 25 million euros ($26.8 million) to Netherlands-registered companies that partner with a Ukrainian firm to carry out reconstruction work in the healthcare, agriculture or water sectors. Starting Sept 11, companies and civil society
Ukraine Rebuild Newswire Staff, Sept 8, 2023 Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, announced it will hold an international competition to rebuild the city center based on a master plan created by a team of foreign and domestic architects led by the Norman Foster Foundation. Kharkiv City Council said in a
By Ukraine Rebuild News Staff Indian businesses should find roles in the reconstruction of Ukraine as early as possible to gain “first-mover advantage,” Ukrainian MP Yulia Klymenkotold a gathering of businesses and trade associations in New Delhi, the Times of India reported. “Right now we have 23% of our railways
By Ukraine Rebuild News Staff Construction equipment manufacturer HD Hyundai XiteSolution will send a representative to accompany Won Hee-ryong, South Korea’s minister of land, infrastructure and transport, on a visit to Ukraine this month, The Korea Times reported, citing unnamed sources. The company, a unit of HD Hyundai, the
By Ukraine Rebuild News Staff Won Hee-ryong, South Korea’s minister of land, infrastructure and transport, said he will visit Ukraine in September to help Korean firms expand their presence in the eventual reconstruction of the country, The Korea Times reported. "At first, we will focus on governmental assistance
By Ukraine Rebuild News Staff UK construction firms will be at the “top of the list” when contracts are handed out to rebuild Ukraine because of their government’s eagerness to help the Ukrainian military against Russia, the British national newspaper known as “i” said in a report based on
By Ukraine Rebuild News Staff Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Ukraine, who have cut staff by an average of 22% since the Russian invasion, will need better access to international financing if they are to play a significant role in the reconstruction of the country when the fighting stops,
By Ukraine Rebuild News Staff Korea Water Resources Corp, the South Korean conglomerate that has agreed to help rebuild Ukraine’s Kakhovka dam, has also been chosen to design a master plan for restoration and creation of a ‘smart city’ in Uman, central Ukraine, Business Korea reported, without saying where
By Ukraine Rebuild News Staff A reconstruction fund created by major international firms for the government of Ukraine aims to raise $10 billion from governments, multinational organizations and other large donors, then use it to generate at least $50 billion in investments in the country, Ukrainian Deputy Economy Minister Oleksandr
