News about Ukraine
Based on the results of an inspection of the sanitary and veterinary measures implemented by Moldova’s National Agency for Food Safety (ANSA) in the poultry sector, the State Service of Ukraine for Food Safety and Consumer Protection has recognized Moldova’s right to export hatching eggs to the Ukrainian market.
Farmers across many European countries struggled this past winter and spring due to low purchase prices for last year’s potatoes, caused by a record surplus. However, in May and June, the situation began to improve. Prices for new potatoes are currently several times higher than those for last year’s crop.
The initiative was drafted by Germany, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg. The countries submitted the relevant document for discussion within the European Union.
The “Nova” Group, which owns the country’s largest private postal operator, is preparing to acquire a bank and may soon become the country’s first financial inclusion bank (FIB). Negotiations are currently in full swing and could be concluded by the end of the summer, according to Ekonomicheskaya Pravda.
Kyiv has signed a number of military agreements with the countries of the “North Baltic Eight” in Tallinn. Latvia and Estonia will cooperate with Kyiv in the production of drones, while Norway will allocate funds for maritime drones for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
In the first few months of 2026, the ports of Greater Odessa were subjected to more than 180 attacks—nearly as many as in the entire previous year.
In Ukraine, despite the war, the market of individual services is rapidly growing thanks to microentrepreneurship. In the first five months of 2026, the country registered 5007 new businesses in this sphere, which is 15% more than in the same period last year, when the market was replenished with 4353 business entities.
The European Commission may decide not to pay €680m to Ukraine due to the late fulfillment of two anti-corruption requirements.
From July 1, new fuel designations will appear at gas stations in Ukraine – E5, E10 and B7, which will indicate the content of biocomponents in gasoline and diesel. The innovation applies only to the system of fuel labeling in accordance with EU standards. The familiar gasoline grades A-95 and A-92 will not disappear, their labeling will not change.
High activity of Ukrainians has become one of the most important trends on the Polish real estate market. According to official data, in 2025 Ukrainian citizens purchased in Poland more than 9.3 thousand apartments with a total area of 548 thousand square meters – this is more than all other foreigners bought together.
Reducing losses in the harvesting, storage and marketing of berry products can bring producers a greater financial result than trying to increase selling prices of the product.
Spain has become the largest buyer of Ukrainian sunflower oil in the 2025/26 marketing season. At the same time, India, which a few months ago led the ranking of importers of this product from Ukraine, dropped to the second position.
The leaders of France, Germany and the UK will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in London on Sunday, June 7. The main topic is how to increase pressure on Russia and what to do next with Kiev’s support. This was reported in the administration of the French President.
The US president said that he expects Ukraine and Russia to make mutual compromises to resolve the conflict.
This morning, Zaporizhzhya TPP came under heavy shelling. This poses a serious threat to the power supply to Zaporizhzhya NPP, which is controlled by Russian armed forces.
After a long period of stabilization, consumer prices in Ukraine have resumed growth. According to the National Bank of the country, the cycle of inflation slowdown, which lasted since June 2025, ended in January 2026. This year, the main driver of price growth in the Ukrainian market was a significant rise in the price of energy resources. However, the impact of inflation in the EU is also gradually increasing.
The European Commission said that it was not ready to transfer the first tranche of the €90bn loan approved for 2026-2027 to Ukraine. According to the official version, the delay in the disbursement of the first €9.1bn, which should have been received by Kiev by the end of June, was caused by its failure to fulfill “all the technical requirements” of Brussels.
The State Tax Service of Ukraine (STS) has revealed a large-scale scheme to transfer money abroad. We are talking about more than 2.3 thousand companies that made foreign economic transactions for more than 198bn hryvnias ($4.47bn or 77bn Moldovan lei) and then virtually disappeared.
In Ukraine, 78 water user organizations (WUOs) that take over management and modernization of land reclamation infrastructure have started their work.
Ukraine has resumed exporting urea to Europe for the first time in a long time. Last week, 12,000 tonnes of this nitrogen fertilizer were shipped from the Ukrainian port of Chernomorsk to Italy.
