Finland has announced that it will allocate €72 million in humanitarian aid, of which €20 million will go to Ukraine, according to the Finnish government’s website.
“A total of €20 million in humanitarian aid will be allocated to Ukraine from the budget item ‘Support for Ukraine’. The aid will be provided through UN humanitarian organizations and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC),” the statement said.
The organizations will, in particular, respond to people’s winter needs and heating requirements by distributing, among other things, heaters, fuel, clothing, and cash assistance, as well as helping to repair houses, water, electricity, and heating systems damaged during the attacks.
Finland will allocate EUR6 million to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), EUR6 million to the World Food Programme (WFP), EUR 5 million to the ICRC, and EUR 3 million to the Ukraine Assistance Basket Fund of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), from which funds will be distributed at the local level according to needs.
“Russian attacks are making it much more difficult for people living in the midst of war to survive in winter conditions in Ukraine. Supporting access to energy and heat is particularly important now, as the need for humanitarian support is acute. Our increased assistance is helping people with basic needs. Finland supports Ukraine,” said Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Ville Tavio.
In its humanitarian aid decisions for the beginning of the year, Finland, in addition to Ukraine, emphasizes the main areas of conflict and refugee crises in Africa, as well as the humanitarian situation in the Middle East.
Moderate wet snow and rain are expected in Ukraine on Tuesday, February 24, with light precipitation in the northern and eastern regions at night.
According to the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Center, there will be sleet and wet snow in some places in the Carpathians and in the northeast of the country. There will be icy conditions on the country’s roads, except in the south and southeast.
The wind will be westerly and southwesterly, 5-10 m/s.
The temperature at night and during the day will range from 2° below zero to 3° above zero (at night in the east of the country 0-5° below zero, during the day in Transcarpathia and in the south 3-8° above zero).
In Kyiv on February 24, there will be light wet snow and rain. Roads will be icy. The wind will be mainly westerly, 5-10 m/s. The temperature at night will be around 0°, and during the day 1-3° above zero.
According to data from the Boris Sreznevsky Central Geophysical Observatory, for the entire period of meteorological observations, the highest daytime temperature in Kyiv on February 24 was 15.8°C in 1990, and the lowest nighttime temperature was -20.7°C in 1888.
On Wednesday, February 25, Ukraine is expected to see light wet snow and rain, with moderate precipitation in the far south, at night and in the east of the country, and in some places wet snow and ice. At night and in the morning, there will be fog in most central and southern regions. On the roads of the country, except for the south, there will be icy patches in places.
The wind will be mainly northwesterly, 5-10 m/s.
The temperature at night and during the day will range from 2° below zero to 3° above zero, and during the day in Transcarpathia and in the southern part, it will be 1-6° above zero.
In Kyiv on February 25, there will be light wet snow and rain. There will be icy patches on the roads in some places. The wind will be northwesterly, 5-10 m/s. The temperature at night and during the day will be around 0°.
Since the beginning of this year — during the energy crisis — Kyiv has received a total of more than 840 generators of various capacities — from 5 kW to 900 kW — from partners and donors from various countries, the capital’s mayor Vitali Klitschko said on Saturday.
He said on Telegram that one of the generators, which was handed over to Kyiv on Saturday by Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo, will be used in one of the lyceums in the central part of the city. The generator has already been delivered to the educational institution.
In total, Paris has sent eight 112 kW generators to Kyiv. Four power sources have already arrived in the city. Four more are expected in the coming days, Klitschko wrote.
According to the mayor, in April 2022, Paris and Kyiv signed a Friendship and Cooperation Agreement, and since the start of the full-scale war, the mayor’s office of the French capital has been sending various humanitarian aid to Kyiv, including generators and other necessary equipment.
The Export Credit Agency (ECA) supported exports worth UAH 5.21 billion in January 2026, according to the agency’s website.
The largest amounts of support in cooperation with partner banks were provided by Raiffeisen Bank (UAH 4.61 billion in supported exports), PrivatBank (UAH 281.83 million), and Oschadbank (UAH 143.47 million).
The largest volume of supported exports was provided by enterprises in the Khmelnytskyi region (UAH 4.61 billion), Chernihiv region — UAH 281.83 million, Zaporizhzhia region — UAH 130.84 million, and Odesa region — UAH 119.81 million.
The main importers of Ukrainian products in January were: Germany (UAH 589.11 million), Bulgaria, Denmark, Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, and Sweden (UAH 576.48 million each), Moldova (UAH 281.83 million), France (UAH 130.84 million), and Slovakia (UAH 49.79 million).
In terms of sectoral structure, the largest share was accounted for by furniture and related products, ferrous metal products, paper and cardboard products, food products, as well as ships and floating vessels.
The Export Credit Agency of Ukraine (ECA) is a state institution that supports non-commodity exports by insuring the risks of enterprises and banks. The agency insures foreign economic contracts, export credits, bank guarantees, and investment credits against military risks.
At their annual remote general meeting on March 31, shareholders of Obriy PJSC (Poltava region) plan to allocate the profit of UAH 41.8 thousand received at the end of 2025 to the development of production and replenishment of working capital.
According to the draft decisions published in the information disclosure system of the National Securities and Stock Market Commission (NSSMC), no dividends are expected to be paid for the past year.
In addition to the distribution of profits, the shareholders will consider the write-off of 12 units of obsolete equipment (T-150K and MTZ tractors and a DON 1500 combine harvester) with a total book value of UAH 54,900.
Due to the expiration of the term of office, the meeting plans to re-elect the company’s board of directors in the same composition for a new three-year term. Antonina Antonets (chair of the board), Gleb Lukyanenko, and Sergey Antonets have been re-nominated to the board.
Obriy PJSC (Mykhailiky village, Myrhorod district, Poltava region) was founded in 1998. It specializes in leasing real estate and agricultural machinery, as well as dairy cattle breeding and grain processing.
The company is a key technical hub of the Antonets family’s organic cluster and works in synergy with Agroecology. The ultimate beneficiaries are Antonina Antonets (61.55%), Maria Antonets (24.17%), and director Serhiy Antonets (5.4%).
From now on, payments to IBAN from personal funds are free of charge in the virtual monobank, according to the project’s co-founder Oleg Gorokhovsky.
“We are now removing this fee. All IBAN payments from personal funds in mono are free of charge starting today,” Gorokhovsky wrote on Telegram on Monday.
According to him, IBAN payment rates at monobank have not changed since 2017. Previously, transfers to IBAN for amounts up to UAH 10,000 were free, and for amounts over UAH 10,000, a commission of 0.5% was charged from own funds.
As Gorokhovsky noted, the income from this commission exceeded UAH 200 million per year.
The branchless mobile bank monobank was founded in January 2017 by former PrivatBank top managers Gorokhovsky, Dmytro Dubilet, and Mykhailo Rogalsky. It operates under the license of Universal Bank, which is part of the TAS Group (Kyiv) and currently serves 10.42 million customers, according to its own data.
According to the National Bank, as of the beginning of 2026, Universal Bank had issued a total of 28.22 million cards, of which 10.50 million were used for transactions during the month.
