KYIV, Feb 24 – A peace agreement in Ukraine must respect Ukraine's borders and right to self-determination, and Europe must urgently step up efforts to ensure its own security, says a joint statement by the foreign ministers of eight Nordic countries (N8): Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania and Norway.
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KYIV, Feb 24 – Norway will allocate EUR 3.5 billion in military aid to Ukraine in 2025, EUR 1 billion for humanitarian support, EUR 300 million for energy, and another EUR 300 million for industrial development, said Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.
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KYIV, Feb 24 - In three years of full-scale invasion, Russia has carried out more than 30 massive complex attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure facilities, the total damage from which amounts to billions of dollars.
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KYIV, Feb 23 - A contentious Trump administration proposal to give the U.S. $500 billion worth of profits from Ukraine’s rare earth minerals as compensation for its wartime assistance to Kyiv has been taken off the table, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Sunday, indicating a more equitable deal is in the works.
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KYIV, Feb 21 – Andriy Brodsky, co-owner and CEO of Velta Group, which operates titanium ore extraction assets in Novomyrhorod (Kirovohrad region), supports close cooperation with the United States on rare earth metals but considers the idea of transferring 50% of Ukraine's natural resources unrealistic.
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KYIV, Feb 21 – The situation with natural gas in Ukraine, impacted by Russian attacks, remains challenging but not critical and is fully under control, according to Naftogaz Group CEO Roman Chumak. He made this statement during a meeting with the leadership of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission in Ukraine, headed by Gavin Gray.
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KYIV, Feb 21 – Ukrainian enterprises increased their consumption of rolled metal in January of this year by 2.16 times compared to the same period last year, to 297,100 tons.

According to the press release of the Ukrmetalurgprom association, 103,000 tons, or 34.67% of the domestic market for rolled metal consumption, were imported during this period.
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KYIV, Feb 21 – Export of high-oleic sunflower oil from Ukraine in the 2024-2025 marketing year continues to decline, which has been typical for the sector for the fifth season in a row, the information and analytical agency APK-Inform reported.
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KYIV, Feb 21 – A new themed water park, Mavka, has opened at the Bukovel resort, developed under the license of the animated film Mavka: The Forest Song (produced by Animagrad, FILM.UA Group). Investments in the project have reached UAH 2 billion, the resort's press service told Interfax-Ukraine.
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KYIV, Feb 20 - A news conference that was planned to follow talks between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Donald Trump’s Ukraine envoy was canceled Thursday as political tensions deepened between the two countries over how to end the almost three-year war with Russia, The Associated Press reported.
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