Export logistics solved, financing put on a multi-year basis, accession negotiations opened, generating capacity lost and rebuilt around — and a labour shortage that no amount…
A unity day greeting in a fourth year of war, and what the word has come to mean in practice.
The gas transit agreement expired at the end of December and was not renewed, ending a transit relationship that had operated since Soviet times and closing…
A new year greeting at the start of a fourth wartime year, kept to what can honestly be wished.
The second Christmas on the December date, by which point the argument in most families had settled one way or the other.
Each autumn the European Commission publishes a detailed assessment of every candidate country. Reading Ukraine's carefully is more informative than most commentary.
Reconstruction plans assume a construction sector capable of executing them. Ukraine's has lost a large share of its workforce, and that is the binding constraint.
Immobilised russian sovereign assets generate income. In 2024 the G7 agreed a structure that lends Ukraine a large sum now and repays it from that income…
Ukraine will need tens of thousands of electricians, welders and machine operators. Vocational education is where those come from, and it was the weakest part of…
A greeting on the December date, and a note on the children whose pillow this year is in a shelter, a rented room or another country.
By the end of 2024 the most consequential cultural work was not exhibition but documentation: recording damage, in a form that would stand up in a…
A transfusion service is a logistics operation with a very short shelf life. Ukraine reformed and expanded one under the worst possible conditions.
A continuous record of the Ukrainian market, quarter by quarter and year by year: output, currency, trade, sectors and what each period settled.
Growth, inflation, the hryvnia, budgets and the macro-financial programmes that keep Ukraine's economy running.
Foreign trade flows, free trade agreements, customs practice and the practical mechanics of entering the Ukrainian market.
Elections, governments, parliamentary arithmetic and the institutional reforms that shape the business environment.
Gas, electricity, transit, nuclear generation, ports and the transport corridors that connect Ukraine to its markets.
Damage assessment, recovery financing, construction capacity and the institutions being built to spend it well.
The Association Agreement, DCFTA, candidate status, accession negotiations and the regulatory convergence behind them.
Grain, oilseeds, the land market, export logistics and Ukraine's role in global food supply.
Demography, labour, migration, regional economies and the human context behind the numbers.
The ritual year, the symbols embroidered into cloth and painted onto eggs, the Carpathian practitioners and the philosophers — the older layer beneath modern Ukraine.
Independence Day and the other dates in Ukraine's calendar, each read against the state of the country in that year.
The primary sources this archive rests on. All of them official bodies or institutional data providers.
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