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The threat of a demographic crisis has been building in Ukraine for a while but Russia’s full-scale invasion has pushed it to the breaking point. The country had a population of 41 million in 2021, by the government’s reckoning. The UN has estimated that 6.2 million refugees left the country during the full-scale invasion and only one million have come back.

The state wants to take away Naftogaz’s right to decide on its subsidiaries’ dividends. The draft law on the 2024 state budget (Draft Law No. 10000) proposes that entities in which 50 percent or more of shares are owned by Naftogaz must pay their 2023 dividends directly to the state budget. Naftogaz is carved out individually in this draft law, which is considered to be a poor practice.

The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) conducted a search in the apartment of the founder of the UFuture holding, Vasyl Khmelnytsky, the businessman himself has said on Facebook.

The holding company UFuture intends to invest $20 million in the creation of industrial parks in Lviv, Vinnytsia and Bucha, UFuture founder Vasyl Khmelnytsky said in an exclusive interview with Interfax-Ukraine.

To implement a 300 MW wind power project in western Ukraine, it is necessary to look for partners in Europe, UFuture founder Vasyl Khmelnytsky said in an exclusive interview with Interfax-Ukraine.

The owner of the UFuture group, businessman Vasyl Khmelnytsky, called for using all chances for ceasefire agreements in order to avoid further human losses.

Business is not going to stop investing in Ukraine, Sergiy Tigipko said after meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky.

If the West is so eager to lend or give Ukraine money, maybe they should just do it — and dispense with the… - Oct. 30, 2021. By Kyiv Post

And the winning bid is from tycoon and ex-President Viktor Yanukovych ally Vasyl Khmelnytsky’s firm, whose offer… - Oct. 22, 2021. By Kyiv Post

Entrepreneur Vasyl Khmelnytsky, as a loan guarantee, indirectly owns 20% of shares in the European company TKB Pacific Worldwide, which in turn owns 25% in Russia's INK-NefteGasGeologiya, but plans to withdraw from shareholders by the end of 2022 after full repayment of the loan.