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Analyses | | Sławomir Matuszak, Marcin Jędrysiak
20 June saw another combined rocket and UAV strike on energy infrastructure facilities. Since March 2024, when Russia resumed its massive shelling campaigns, Ukraine has lost around half of its installed capacity, resulting in power…
Analyses | | Marcin Jędrysiak, Sławomir Matuszak, Iwona Wiśniewska
During the summit in Apulia from 13–15 June, the G7 group decided to launch a mechanism to aid Ukraine, effectively offering it $50 billion by the end of 2024. The Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration Loans for Ukraine (ERA) involves…
Analyses | | Sławomir Matuszak
In April, Ukraine sold 13.2 million tonnes of goods worth $3.4 billion abroad. Exports increased by 1.3 million tonnes (10.8%) compared to March this year, and by 5 million tonnes (62%) compared to the same month of 2023. Ukraine’s deputy…
Analyses | | Sławomir Matuszak
Over the past three weeks, Russia has employed a new tactic: targeting Ukraine’s critical infrastructure facilities by aiming to destroy its power plants. This has proved more effective and devastating than the tactics it used in late 2022…
Analyses | | Sławomir Matuszak
22 March saw the biggest attack on the Ukrainian electricity infrastructure since the beginning of the war, during which Russia launched 151 rockets and UAVs. Just like the shelling carried out during the previous heating season, the main…
Analyses | | Sławomir Matuszak
In 2023, EU exports to Ukraine rose significantly, while its imports from this country fell. Sales from member states to Ukraine rose by 29.8% to €39 billion, and imports shrunk by 17.3% to €22.9 billion, mainly due to the low global…
OSW Commentary | | Sławomir Matuszak, Konrad Popławski
The Ukrainian government has used the ongoing war as an opportunity to carry out a rapid transformation of the railway infrastructure in the western part of the country. This process is expected to both increase the capacity of the railway…
Analyses | | Sławomir Matuszak
On 18 January, the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) detained Ihor Mazepa, the founder and CEO of Concorde Capital, one of the biggest investment funds in Ukraine. He was charged with illegally acquiring plots of land located in the…
Analyses | | Sławomir Matuszak
Ukrainian trade collapsed in 2022 due to the war (see ‘A year of war in Ukraine's foreign trade’), but it stabilised to a certain extent in 2023. During that time, exports decreased by nearly 20%. The reason for this was lower grain prices…
Analyses | | Sławomir Matuszak
On 19 December Oleksandr Kubrakov, deputy prime minister for the reconstruction of Ukraine and minister for infrastructure, announced that during the four months of operation of the Ukrainian Black Sea Corridor it had managed to export 10…