Reconstruction & Recovery
The construction workforce question
A detailed look at who is available to build, what they can do, and the specific measures that would enlarge the pool.
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Foreign relations
Two years of packages, and what the list looks like now
The thirteenth package arrived on the second anniversary. Reading the sanctions record after two years tells you more about how coalitions hold than any single measure…
Humanitarian dimension
Evacuation as a standing operation
By 2024 evacuation from settlements near the front had become a routine, organised process rather than an emergency — transport, reception, documents, accommodation, and the difficult…
Reconstruction & Recovery
Does Ukraine have the capacity to rebuild itself
Reconstruction discussions concentrate on money. The binding constraint is more likely to be physical: contractors, plant, materials and people. It is worth assessing that honestly.
Energy & Infrastructure
Energy as a strategic variable: generation, storage, transit and interconnection
Ukraine's energy position has flipped completely in fifteen years — from a transit state dependent on one supplier to a European grid participant with the continent's…
Society & Regions
The people who came back
Return migration is less discussed than departure and is at least as consequential, because people come back with things they did not leave with.
Agriculture & Food
Phase two, and legal entities
The second stage of the land market opened purchase to Ukrainian companies. It came with caps, and the caps are the interesting part.
War economy
The Facility is adopted
In February 2024 the European Union adopted the Ukraine Facility: fifty billion euro over four years, in grants, loans and guarantees, released against a plan Ukraine…
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Annual Review 2023: the year improvisation became structure
Growth returned from a collapsed base, inflation fell to single digits, a unilateral sea corridor replaced a negotiated one, and accession negotiations were opened. The temporary…
National Days & Anniversaries
Day of Unity 2024
Twenty years since I arrived, and a January day about lands held together.
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q4 2023
A decision to open accession negotiations in December converted EU membership from a direction of travel into a technical work programme with chapters, benchmarks and a…
National Days & Anniversaries
New Year, 1 January 2024
A New Year greeting for a table with some empty places and the meal made anyway.
Browse the analyses
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Quarterly & Annual Reports
112
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
61
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
298
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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