KYIV, Dec 9 – The Ukrainian government has adopted a new state property policy aimed at optimizing the portfolio of state-owned assets by conducting a triage process. This involves analyzing all state-owned assets and categorizing them into groups to remain state-owned, privatized, or liquidated, stated First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy Yulia Svyrydenko.

"The government plans to reduce the number of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to about 100 from the more than 3,000 we have today. The goal of this optimization is to enhance the efficiency of state-owned enterprises, increase their contribution to the economy, and reduce the budgetary burden of maintaining them," she wrote in an op-ed for Interfax-Ukraine.