This week, the Ministry of Digital Transformation (Mintsifr) added four new issues of military domestic government bonds (OVDPs) with maturity dates from April 2025 to June 2026 to Diia, traditionally naming them after the occupied cities, towns and territories in Ukraine.
In particular, the bonds are “Sudak” with a nominal rate of 16.24% per annum and a maturity date of April 30, 2025, “Gurzuf” – 15.25% and June 4, 2025, “Lazurne” – 14.72% and September 10, 2025, “Dzharylgach” – 15.47% and June 10, 2026.
The Ministry of Digital Transformation reminded that with the addition of new securities, the total number of them in Diia has increased to 11. Now you can also buy there issues maturing on November 20, 2024 (Askania Nova), January 15, 2025 (Simferopol), March 12, 2025 (Makiivka), June 18, 2025 (Yevpatoria), July 23, 2025 (Dzhankoy), October 15, 2025 (Kerch) and January 28, 2026 (Bakhchisarai).
The intermediaries are the state-owned Sens Bank (formerly Alfa-Bank) and Ukrgasbank, as well as ICU, bond.ua and Kinto.
As of September 6, there were UAH 1 trillion 677.30 billion worth of domestic government bonds in circulation. The largest portion is held by commercial banks (UAH 742.74 billion) and the NBU (UAH 677.60 billion), while legal entities and individuals hold UAH 166.46 billion and UAH 63.52 billion, non-residents UAH 26.22 billion, and territorial communities UAH 0.76 billion, respectively.
Since the beginning of the year, individuals have increased their investments in domestic government bonds by UAH 11.89 billion, while their total volume in circulation has increased by UAH 105.67 billion. According to the Settlement Center, there were almost 193 thousand investors in Ukraine as of September 1 this year, compared to 166.1 thousand at the beginning of the year.
The National Bank clarified that in January-August this year, the government of Ukraine raised almost UAH 319 billion in equivalent from the placement of domestic government bonds at auctions: UAH 232.96 billion, $1 billion 456.6 million and EUR670.8 million. UAH 133.94 billion, $1 billion 126.6 million, and EUR 841.2 million were allocated to redeem previously issued bonds during this period.
Thus, the state budget for the first eight months of this year was financed by UAH 105.20 billion in domestic government bonds, including UAH 9.11 billion in August.
At the latest primary auctions on September 3, the Ministry of Finance maintained the placement rate for one-year hryvnia bonds at 14.65% and raised the rate for two-year securities to 15.6% and for three-year securities to 16.6%-16.9% per annum.
According to the results of screening of the main rivers of Ukraine: Dnieper, Dniester, Siversky Donets, the state of water in the country is not worse than its neighbors in Europe, Deputy Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine Mykhailo Khorev said in a Sunday interview with Dim TV.
“There’s really nothing to be afraid of yet. We can’t say that our condition is much worse than our neighbors in Europe […] We fix, say, metals, but we don’t actually have mercury in the water, very well. And in European rivers there is such a problem, and they are actively fighting it. The Slovaks who did our screening were satisfied with the result. They said that in general your rivers are in a much better condition than everyone thinks about them,” the deputy minister said.
Khorev also said that there were traces of COVID pharmaceuticals in the water. Pills and injections used by Ukrainians are excreted from the body and sooner or later fall into the water.
He said that “the same thing is happening in Europe, there are good modernized cleansing facilities, but there are also old ones. Even the leading countries – Germany and France – have not reached good water state.”
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has appointed Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Iryna Stavchuk as Deputy Head of the Ministry for European Integration, government spokesman in the Verkhovna Rada Vasily Mokan said.
According to the statement, the relevant decision was made at a government meeting on Wednesday.
In addition, the government appointed Deputy Head of the State Service of Ukraine for Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre Oleksandr Krasnolutsky as Deputy Head of the Ecology Ministry.
The State Service of Ukraine for Geodesy, Cartography and Cadastre said on its website that Krasnolutsky served as Deputy Head of the department since February 20, 2019
The Ministry of Energy and Environmental Protection of Ukraine will be divided into two relevant departments, Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal has said.
“The separation of the ministry and the creation of the post of the profile minister of ecology are on the agenda,” he said in an exclusive interview with Interfax-Ukraine, emphasizing that the previous merger of the ministries did not produce the expected effect.
“It was strange for me when I got to the first meetings of the Cabinet of Ministers, when the minister of energy first reported on the state of affairs in the nuclear energy industry, then the coal industry, and then on the Red Book plants and catch of bloodworms. Since then, I have been a supporter of the idea that a professional ecologist should be involved in ecology, to whom it is close and who lives with it,” Shmyhal said.
As reported, in August 2019, the Verkhovna Rada supported the candidatures for the posts of members of the new Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. By this decision, the Minister of Energy and Environmental Protection of Ukraine was appointed. Prior to this, the government had two separate ministries: the Ministry of Energy and the Ministry of Ecology.
The Ministry of Energy and Environment Protection is creating Ukrvuhillia state-owned enterprise. Corresponding order No. 13 of January 14, 2020 was posted on the website of the department. The document also approves the charter of the enterprise, and obliges the HR department to take measures regarding the appointment of the head of the enterprise.
The ministry said the decision to create Ukrvuhillia was made with the aim of eliminating the shortcomings of the current system of selling coal mined by state-owned coal mining enterprises, conducting a unified state policy regarding the extraction, processing and sale of coal, optimizing the structure of the procurement market, in particular imports, and creating a single platform for a rapid response to the problems of the coal industry.
The main idea of creating the enterprise is to ensure the proper and transparent functioning of the coal market, to protect Ukrainian producers from the influence of uncontrolled imports, as well as to sustainably meet the needs of domestic consumers in scarce grades of coal.
Ukraine’s new Cabinet of Ministers may not include a Ministry of Agricultural Policy and Food. A source of Interfax-Ukraine with knowledge of the situation confirmed this information.
According to the source, the ministry’s liquidation was discussed for about a month.
The European Business Association (EBA) stated its concern about the possibility of liquidating the ministry and attaching parts of it to other ministries or agencies, as did specialized agricultural associations, such as the Ukrainian Grain Association, the Ukrainian Agribusiness Club, the Ukrainian Agrarian Forum, the Agrarian Union of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation and others.
