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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has approved its Strategic and Capital Framework (SCF) for the next five years, demonstrating strong and continued support for Ukraine.
The EBRD’s central strategic objective for the 2026–2030 period is to provide exceptional support to Ukraine—sustaining livelihoods during wartime and contributing to the country's prosperous future within Europe as it undergoes reconstruction.
Governors agreed at the end of 2023 to increase the Bank’s paid-in capital by €4 billion to provide significant and sustained investment for Ukraine and help support the EBRD’s priorities wherever it operates.
The Bank has deployed more than €7 billion in Ukraine since the full-scale Russian invasion in 2022 and the new capital will have a multiplier effect which will further increase available investment.
"Delivering on the capital-increase commitments to Ukraine is the EBRD’s highest medium-term priority and a yardstick by which it will be judged. The EBRD will also increase its support to other countries of operation in response to both long-term transition needs and the continuing disruption and displacement resulting from the war in Ukraine," - the Bank said in its statement.
During the new SCF’s five-year period and without reducing its existing commitments, the Bank will also become fully operational in new countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Iraq.
“The Bank enters the next SCF period from a position of strength. This enables us to be even more ambitious for the impact and delivery we strive to achieve, not least in supporting Ukraine, which will continue to be our top priority,” - stated the EBRD President Odile Renaud-Basso speaking about Bank's strategic approach for the next five years.
The new SCF identifies three core themes for its activities:
Accelerating the green transition.
Advancing economic governance.
Promoting human capital and equality of opportunity for all.
It also aims to maximise the Bank’s impact through two strategic enablers:
Developing and deploying digital technology.
Mobilising more private capital.
Ukraine is facing a sharp escalation in fighting across several fronts, with Russian forces launching large-scale offensive operations while Kyiv intensifies long-range strikes deep inside Russian territory.
Russia announced on Sunday that its forces had made significant advances in Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, capturing two settlements as part of what it described as a broader offensive aimed at securing full control of the strategic territory.
Russia announced on Sunday that its forces had made significant advances in Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, capturing two settlements as part of a broader offensive aimed at seizing full control of the area.
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Mainland China and Hong Kong equities slipped on Tuesday, Reuters reported, as investors grew cautious ahead of delayed U.S. economic data expected to clarify the Federal Reserve’s policy outlook.
A federal jury in California ruled on Friday that Apple must pay $634 million to Masimo, a medical-monitoring technology company, for infringing a patent related to blood-oxygen reading technology.
Wall Street closed sharply lower on Thursday, dragged down by steep losses in Nvidia, Tesla, and other artificial-intelligence heavyweights, as investors dialed back expectations for further Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts amid renewed inflation concerns and mixed signals from policymakers.
Russia’s budget deficit reached 4.2 trillion rubles (around $51.9 billion) in the first ten months of 2025, driven by rising government spending, according to data from the Finance Ministry released on Tuesday.
Wall Street climbed sharply on Monday, with Nvidia up 5.8% and Palantir 8.8%, as artificial intelligence (AI) stocks rebound and progress in Congress raises hopes of ending the U.S. government shutdown.
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