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The timing of the “Made in Ukraine” event that gathered over 400 entrepreneurs, government officials, foreign guests, and journalists in central Kyiv on Feb. 26 was no coincidence. In the absence of further U.S. funding, Ukraine is turning to its business in the hopes of being less dependent on what Economy Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko called a “sometimes volatile external environment." President Volodymyr Zelensky made a surprise appearance at the event to formally ann...

Diia.City, the special tax regime set up for local and foreign tech firms in Ukraine practically on the eve of the full-scale invasion, is in trouble. It was supposed to be the change that finally made the business climate attractive and beneficial for IT companies and startups. Since it was unveiled on Feb. 8, 2022, 800 companies have become “residents” of Diia.City.

The following is the Nov. 21, 2023 edition of our Ukraine Business Roundup weekly newsletter. To get the biggest news in business and tech from Ukraine directly in your inbox, subscribe here. Persisting protests Polish protests blocking three major Poland-Ukraine border crossings have now stretched into their third week, negotiations

Polish protests blocking three major Poland-Ukraine border crossings have now stretched into their third week, negotiations are going nowhere, and there is an increasing risk that the protests are going to spread to other EU countries that border Ukraine. If you haven’t been following closely, on Nov. 7 a group of Polish truckers began blocking Ukrainian haulers wanting to enter Poland. As the Ukrainian side repudiates the Polish protesters' complaints, analysts in Poland say that ...

The war in Ukraine has been one of duality — trench warfare and artillery battles alongside revolutionary drone tactics; cities destroyed and occupied by Russia, and calm(er) ones where life has tried its best to carry forward; references to light and darkness, good and evil. IT Arena, Ukraine’s largest annual tech event, breathed the same dualism, with events, presentations, and panels about topics such as generative AI (ChatGPT is an example) and the role of titanium in revoluti...

Question: What factors will swing the war decisively in Ukraine's favor? Answer: One very simple conclusion that can be made from the last year of the war is that large-scale offensive operations have gotten a lot harder to do successfully for both sides than a year ago, and they are likely to only get harder. Beyond this counteroffensive, both sides will look to take the upper hand in a war of attrition, to degrade the enemy more than they themselves are degraded so that they can attack ...

Last Friday and Saturday, Ukrainian and foreign political and business leaders, including President Volodymyr Zelensky, got together in the basement of Kyiv’s Intercontinental Hotel for the Yalta European Strategy (YES) Conference. Side panel screens had Twitter posts of war updates from Ukrainian media. The message Ukraine’s officials wanted to convey?

Ukrainian troops admitted that Russian soldiers were stronger. Is NATO's training ineffective? In an interview, Ukraine's troops admitted that Russian soldiers are stronger; claiming that their enemies are overpowering them on the battlefield.

"Everything is not like what you read on the news," one disheartened Ukrainian soldier fighting east of Kharkiv told the Kyiv Independent .

Ukrainian troops admitted that Russian soldiers were stronger. Is NATO's training ineffective? In an interview, Ukraine's troops admitted that Russian soldiers are stronger; claiming that their enemies are overpowering them on the battlefield.