The latest market, economy, central-bank, policy and company stories from Ukraine, updated every 15 minutes. Last updated 19 October 2026.
| GDP growth (2025) | 1.8% | Moderate growth. |
| Inflation (2025) | 12.7% | High inflation: money loses value quickly. |
| Unemployment (2021) | 9.8% | High: many people can’t find work. |
| GDP per person (2025) | $5,866 | Average output per person: a rough measure of how wealthy a country is. |
| Current account (2024) | -8.0% of GDP | Deficit: spends more abroad than it earns, so it relies on foreign money. |
| Exports (2025) | 25.3% of GDP | An open, trading economy. |
Latest official annual figures from World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0). Context, not a forecast or financial advice.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed holding a trilateral summit with US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping next month to discuss a settlement to the four-year war in Ukraine, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
The report comes amid mounting tensions between Ukraine and the United States, its largest military backer.
Wheat rose 0.6% to $6.645 a bushel at 12:38 p.m. in Singapore
Fires broke out at an oil terminal and depot in St. Petersburg after Ukraine launched a massive wave of drone strikes on Sunday.
US support at risk as Trump-Zelenskyy relations nosedive.
"Mothers of Kherson" has opened at Poland's National Opera. The performance was co-produced with New York's Metropolitan Opera and created in close association with Save Ukraine, a group helping to bring back Ukrainian children who remain in Russia.
Pope Leo spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone on Friday, calling for a ceasefire in a Russian-occupied city in southern Ukraine, as he recovers in hospital from a lung cancer operation.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has expressed concerns over the US diesel deal with Russia. He warned that this agreement could provide additional funds for Russia's ongoing war against Ukraine. Zelenskyy emphasized the need for Europe to increase support to Ukraine as missile attacks continue.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday asked European Union leaders to provide Kyiv an extra 70 billion euros (US$79 billion) in funding next year to help it keep fighting Russia. “The war will cost 155 billion euros next year.
European leaders on Friday rallied around Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky as Kyiv’s ties with US President Donald Trump have nosedived and worries grow that US leader is increasingly siding with Russia.
The Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said there was little indication that Moscow was ready to end the war and warned that Kyiv needed to prepare for the coming winter. "We want to end this war as quick as possible.
European Union leaders gathered in Brussels on Thursday for a two-day summit to discuss the bloc’s next long-term budget, continued support for Ukraine and measures to strengthen Europe’s economic competitiveness amid rising energy prices and geopolitical uncertainty.
US president says Zelenskyy ‘more difficult to deal with than Putin’ after so-called energy ceasefire collapses Donald Trump has called Ukraine’s renewed strikes on Russian oil refineries a “disgrace”, while renewing his criticism of Volodymyr Zelenskyy after an energy ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine…
Ukraine's president has told Elon Musk that any restriction on the Starlink's system cost lives.
Delano D'Souza is pleased to welcome Peter Zalmayev, Founder and Director of the Eurasia Democracy Initiative, LIVE from Kyiv. As Zelensky declares Ukraine "done" with Trump's self-declared energy ceasefire and resumes strikes on Russian oil refineries, Zalmayev warns: "When you talk about the energy ceasefire, it…
European Union leaders will clash on Thursday over the size of bloc's next long-term budget, its sources of revenue and spending priorities, with no immediate deal in sight. The budget also covers help for Kyiv.
Restrictions reported by Ukraine on its use of the US satellite internet system Starlink have exposed Kyiv's reliance on the technology for both offensive and defensive operations in its fight against Russia'a invasion, analysts and observers say.
Kyiv's mayor, Vitaly Klitschko, has advised those residents who can "temporarily relocate" for the winter to do so. That advice has been met with derision at best from many residents, who say his administration is responsible for failing to better prepare the Ukrainian capital for Russian attacks.
Ukraine will now resume attacks on Russian energy targets after Moscow hasn't held up its end of the proposed deal brokered by Trump.
These attacks and counter-attacks highlight a new front line in the war: the infrastructure that sustains digital economies.
New restrictions on the speed at which some of Ukraine's weapons can travel and stay connected to the Starlink internet network have disrupted Ukraine's battlefield "missions", President Volodymyr Zelensky's adviser has warned.
Elon Musk's system allows Kyiv to protect Ukrainian skies and effectively guide drones to Russian targets.