Domestic balance
Storage, and the value of an hour
By 2025 the most valuable addition to the Ukrainian grid was not new generation. It was batteries, and the reason is a matter of timing rather…
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War economy
Paying for a war and preparing for accession at the same time
By 2025 external financing to Ukraine was doing two jobs at once, and the second one is the more consequential.
Foreign relations
What listing an individual actually does
Thousands of individuals have been listed. The effect is not what most people assume, and understanding it correctly matters for judging the regime.
Reconstruction & Recovery
Restoring what cannot be replaced
A damaged historic building presents a question ordinary construction never has to answer: how much of it can be renewed before it stops being the thing…
Foreign relations
Screening: the year of reading two legal systems against each other
The least visible phase of accession is the one that determines everything that follows. Through 2024 and 2025 Ukrainian and European officials worked chapter by chapter…
National Days & Anniversaries
Vyshyvanka Day, 15 May 2025
A greeting for a day that is now worn in a great many countries at once, by people who did not plan to be there.
Culture and identity
Training the workforce reconstruction will need
A rebuild needs welders, machine operators, electricians and site foremen. Those are trained in vocational schools, and vocational education was thin here long before 2022.
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
The internal market chapters
Goods, services, capital and company law. This is the cluster a business notices, because it changes what it may sell, where and under what documentation.
Reconstruction & Recovery
Master planning for towns that must be rebuilt
A destroyed town can be rebuilt as it was, or as it should have been. The second is better and much harder, and the difference is…
National Days & Anniversaries
Easter, 20 April 2025
An Easter greeting for a year when the calendars aligned and everyone marked it on the same day.
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q1 2025
The first quarter in which no russian gas crossed Ukrainian territory since the pipeline network was built. The transit era ended quietly and the European gas…
Foreign relations
Integration before membership
Ukraine has been joining European systems one at a time without waiting for accession. That approach delivers benefits decades before membership does.
Browse the analyses
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Quarterly & Annual Reports
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A continuous record of the Ukrainian market, quarter by quarter and year by year: output, currency, trade, sectors and what each period settled.
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Economy & Macro
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Growth, inflation, the hryvnia, budgets and the macro-financial programmes that keep Ukraine's economy running.
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Trade & Investment
69
Foreign trade flows, free trade agreements, customs practice and the practical mechanics of entering the Ukrainian market.
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Politics & Governance
47
Elections, governments, parliamentary arithmetic and the institutional reforms that shape the business environment.
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Energy & Infrastructure
46
Gas, electricity, transit, nuclear generation, ports and the transport corridors that connect Ukraine to its markets.
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Reconstruction & Recovery
46
Damage assessment, recovery financing, construction capacity and the institutions being built to spend it well.
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EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
49
The Association Agreement, DCFTA, candidate status, accession negotiations and the regulatory convergence behind them.
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Agriculture & Food
44
Grain, oilseeds, the land market, export logistics and Ukraine's role in global food supply.
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Society & Regions
57
Demography, labour, migration, regional economies and the human context behind the numbers.
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Folklore & Esoterica
54
The ritual year, the symbols embroidered into cloth and painted onto eggs, the Carpathian practitioners and the philosophers — the older layer beneath modern Ukraine.
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National Days & Anniversaries
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Independence Day and the other dates in Ukraine's calendar, each read against the state of the country in that year.
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