Olena Hrazhdan

2 months ago | kyivpost.com | Olena Hrazhdan

French-owned nuclear company Framatome signed a contract with Rosatom to co-produce nuclear fuel for water-water energetic reactors (WWER or VVER), Olena Lapenko from think tank DiXi Group told Kyiv Post in an interview. Framatome is executing a scale-up to produce nuclear fuel as part of joint venture with Rosatom, the State Atomic Energy Corporation of Russia. The fuel will be produced in a Framatome-owned factory in Lingen, Germany. Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official.

2 months ago | kyivpost.com | Olena Hrazhdan

Ukraine’s cryptocurrency exchange, Kuna, ceased its operations in all countries. This was announced by the company’s founder, Mykhailo Chobanian, on Jan. 30. The ceasing of operations was followed by a decision to block access to Kuna in Ukraine, issued by Shevchenkivsky District Court of Kyiv upon the request of the Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine (BEB). Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official.

2 months ago | kyivpost.com | Olena Hrazhdan

The European Business Association (EBA), an organization representing almost 1,000 Ukrainian and foreign companies, asked Ukraine’s authorities to establish a “targeted air raid alert system” that limits work-stoppage to specific city sectors rather than region-wide halts that hamper productivity. The current air raid alert system covers entire Ukrainian regions, especially if the air raid alert is announced due to a possible ballistic missile strike or when Russian fighter-bombers take off.

2 months ago | kyivpost.com | Olena Hrazhdan

Ukraine’s leader in the online taxi market, Uklon, is on the verge of being sold to the largest telecom operator in the country, Kyivstar, after years of competing with international players Uber and Bolt, Forbes Ukraine reported. In December 2024, Kyivstar applied to Ukraine’s Antimonopoly Committee to acquire the company, according to media sources. Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official.

2 months ago | kyivpost.com | Olena Hrazhdan

On Jan. 1, Ukraine halted the transit of Russian gas to Europe through the Druzhba, Soyuz and Yamal-Yevropa pipelines. The names of these pipelines – drawn from Soviet-era words meaning “friendship”, “union” or “brotherhood” – are, in all their irony, the remnants of a 60-year-old gas transit friendship. Until any new deals are made, most gas flowing through Ukrainian pipelines, aside from a tiny share of imports from Hungary and Moldova, will be Ukraine-produced gas.