All the headlines from our Ukraine Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 7 2024 // A legal battle between insurers and aircraft leasing companies over jets stuck in Ukraine should be heard in Ukraine rather than London, the High Court in London ruled on Thursday.Aircraft lessors, including...
May 14 2024 // Insurance broker WTW announced a partnership with Ukrainian insurer, VUSO, to provide a London-market-backed facility covering cargo and, crucially, war-on-land risks.This exclusive facility – which WTW describes as a...
Apr 12 2024 // The United Nations atomic watchdog held an emergency meeting in Vienna to discuss the increasing risk of an accident at a Russian-occupied atomic power plant in Ukraine.International Atomic Energy Agency diplomats convened...
Apr 5 2024 // Subsidized insurance would attract investors to help rebuild Ukraine’s war-battered economy, according to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.“Reconstruction could start very quickly,”...
Mar 15 2024 // Since Russia invaded Ukraine two years ago, nearly 50 merchant ships have been languishing in its waters, stuck in ports too dangerous to sail from.But while these ships have not moved, some of their owners have changed,...
Mar 1 2024 // Insurance broker Marsh McLennan, the Ukrainian government and Lloyd’s have announced a major expansion of the Unity insurance facility – a public-private partnership originally launched in November 2023 to provide...
Feb 29 2024 // German supermarket chain Metro and its 3,400 employees in Ukraine have worked hard to get their business back to where it was before Russia’s full-scale invasion two years ago.After a sales slump of 10.4% in 2022...
Jan 26 2024 // Several major Ukrainian state organizations on Thursday reported cyber attacks on their systems, in the latest wave that a source close to the government blamed on Russian intelligence.Ukraine’s state-run energy...
Jan 19 2024 // Ukraine is working “intensively” with partners to restore air travel suspended for nearly two years, with the main focus on Boryspil International Airport outside the capital Kyiv, a presidential official said...
Jan 15 2024 // Ukraine is discussing military risk insurance for air transportation with insurance broker Marsh and consulting firm Oliver Wyman, Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council said on Friday.Air traffic over...
Jan 4 2024 // Russian hackers were inside Ukrainian telecoms giant Kyivstar’s system from at least May last year in a cyberattack that should serve as a “big warning” to the West, Ukraine’s cyber spy chief told...
Dec 28 2023 // A Panama-flagged bulk carrier that was headed to a River Danube port to load grain hit a Russian mine in the Black Sea on Wednesday, injuring two crew members, Ukrainian officials said on Thursday.It was the latest...
Dec 12 2023 // Ukraine’s biggest mobile network operator said it hoped to restore operations by Wednesday after coming under what appeared to be the largest cyberattack since Russia launched its war on the country in February...
Nov 20 2023 // A merchant ship transporting grains was lightly damaged off the coast of Ukraine and was likely to have been hit by a floating sea mine, according to maritime specialists and a Ukrainian government source.This is the...
Nov 15 2023 // Ukraine is starting an insurance program with broker Marsh McLennan and Lloyd’s of London to provide cover for grain vessels sailing from Ukraine’s deep-sea ports, just days after a ship was hit by a Russian...
Nov 13 2023 // Freight costs for ships in Ukraine’s alternative export corridor have eased back to their former levels, a government source said on Friday, after brokers said earlier they had risen following an attack on a cargo...
Nov 9 2023 // A Russian missile strike on a commercial ship at a major Ukrainian Black Sea port is adding to risks for commodity exports just as farmers in the war-battered nation are in the midst of this year’s harvest.A 750-feet...
Oct 26 2023 // A senior Ukrainian official said Russian cyberattacks are growing more sophisticated and have become daily occurrences aimed at disrupting vital infrastructure during wartime.Deputy Foreign Minister Anton Demokhin,...
Oct 18 2023 // A steady stream of ships is hauling grain and metals from Ukraine a month after the first inbound vessel sailed through its new shipping corridor in the Black Sea in defiance of Russian threats.More than 30 vessels have...
Oct 6 2023 // If China attempts to cut Taiwan off from the world by severing more than a dozen undersea cables that connect it to the internet, large numbers of fast-moving low Earth orbit satellites will be critical to maintaining...