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The government of Ukraine has been "sounding out" major investors about the possibility of restructuring the country's $20 billion in international debt and raising new funds, Reuters reported out of London, citing three unnamed sources. The head of Ukraine's debt management office, Yuri Butsa,
Turkish firms Ozaltin Holding and Dolsar Muhendislik agreed to help Ukrainian state hydro power producer Ukrhydroenergo rebuild the 351 MW Kakhovka hydro power plant (HPP) blown up in June and construct the Kanivska pumped storage power station (PSPP) on the Dnieper River. Ukrhydroenergo signed separate memoranda of agreement with both
Ukraine’s government aims to auction off a vodka distillery for as little as $500,000, a stone quarry with a starting price of $7.2 million, a dental products maker at a starting value of $1.3 million, a state vocational school for as little as $9,000, and
The Romanian government is in talks to buy the Danube River port of Giurgiulesti in the neighboring landlocked Republic of Moldova to transform it into a shipping hub for the reconstruction of Ukraine after the war, Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu said in an exclusive interview with news outlet Digi24.
Kyivstar, Ukraine's largest mobile operator, will work with US-based hardware and software firm Trimble to install almost 200 communications towers across Ukraine to offer high-precision satellite positioning services for use in engineering, mapping, shipping and other trades. The companies will build 41 communications towers in the
Aecon, one of Canada's largest publicly traded construction firms, has agreed to help rebuild Ukraine's hydropower facilities, including taking part in the $1 billion reconstruction of the Kahkhovka hydropower dam destroyed in an explosion in June, Ukraine's state-owned power producer Ukrhydroenergo said. In
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
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
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
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
