Ukraine's Ministry for Economic Development and Trade reports that about 100 state-owned enterprises shut down in Ukraine every year, while privatization may break the trend.
Almost 150 strategically important and security sensitive enterprises in Ukraine, including nuclear power plants, have not been affected by recent cyber attacks caused by ransomware dubbed Petya.A, according to the Ukrainian government's press service.
The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors on May 2 approved a US$ 150 million loan for the Access to Long Term Finance Project that will support Ukraine's export-oriented small and medium enterprises (SMEs), according to the World Bank's press service.
Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers has ordered state unitary enterprises and enterprises where the state owns at least 50% to publish information on their activities on own websites, according to a relevant resolution posted on the government portal.
The authorities of the so-called "Luhansk People's Republic" ("LPR") have received permission to block shipments of products from the "nationalized" Ukrainian enterprises if they do not pay taxes to the budget of the "LPR," according to Information Resistance, a non-governmental project on information security.