By 2023 the rehabilitation and prosthetics capacity being built in Ukraine had moved past improvisation. New centres opened designed around a model — surgery, prosthetics, physiotherapy…
The economy stabilised at a much lower level and began growing again from a very low base. A four-year external programme was agreed in March, the…
The electricity system stayed up through repeated damage. That was not luck; it was a small number of engineering decisions and a very large number of…
Nuclear plants require continuous power, water, staff and independent inspection. Maintaining all four in wartime is an unprecedented problem, and it was addressed procedurally.
In March 2023 the International Monetary Fund approved a multi-year programme for Ukraine. The Fund had never before agreed a full programme with a country in…
Candidate status came with a list of things to do. The list turned out to be more useful than the status.
In March 2023 a joint assessment by the World Bank, the European Commission, the United Nations and the Ukrainian government put a number on what recovery…
Ukraine built a housing compensation system that a citizen operates from a phone. The design decisions behind it are worth studying anywhere.
By early 2023 Ukrainian schooling had completed a full year of teaching under attack, and the sector had learned things worth writing down.
Through the winter of 2022 and 2023 the Ukrainian energy system was hit repeatedly and was widely expected to collapse. It did not. Understanding why is…
Before land can be cleared it has to be surveyed, and in early 2023 the surveying was still establishing how large the task would be.
A greeting, brief, in a year when the day was marked quietly in most places.
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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