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  • Yuliia Svyrydenko discusses expanding cooperation and scaling up projects with EBRD
    Ministry of Economy of Ukraine, posted 04 February 2025 15:50

    Yuliia Svyrydenko, First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of Ukraine, and Francis Malige, Managing Director of the EBRD’s Financial Institutions sector, discussed the expansion of cooperation and scaling up existing projects during a meeting in Kyiv.

    The meeting was also attended by First Deputy Minister Oleksii Sobolev, Deputy Ministers Andrii Teliupa and Ihor Bezkaravainyi, and representatives of the EBRD.

    Yuliia Svyrydenko briefed the EBRD representatives on the progress in the implementation of government business support programmes. These include the Affordable Loans at 5-7-9% programme, the eOselia housing programme, programmes to support small and medium-sized enterprises, and compensation programmes for farmers for the demining of agricultural land. The parties discussed potential opportunities for partner support for these and other programmes.

    The First Deputy Prime Minister also briefed the partners on the priority sectors where the Government saw the greatest potential for attracting investment. These include energy, transport and logistics, agro-processing, critical materials, development of the processing industry, including the defence industry, IT and digitalisation, and others.

    The meeting focused on financing the real sector. The parties discussed the effective use of grants, loans and other support instruments. They also discussed the attraction of private capital.

    Yuliia Svyrydenko thanked the EBRD for its systematic support of the Ukrainian economy.

    By the end of 2024, the EBRD had become one of the key institutional investors in Ukraine, having invested EUR 2.4 billion in various projects. The investments were aimed at strengthening energy security, developing critical infrastructure, supporting food security, trade and the private sector. The Bank also actively cooperates with donors, having attracted more than EUR 2.6 billion in donor support since 2022, including unfunded guarantees. Following the decision in 2023 to increase capital by EUR 4 billion, the EBRD plans to maintain investments at EUR 1.5 billion annually, with a possible increase during the recovery period.