Business week: changes to the state budget, division of Halyna Baluvana and growth of the national debt

Last week, Ukraine saw important events affecting both public finances and citizens' wallets. The Cabinet of Ministers proposed large-scale changes to the state budget for 2025 – expenditures are planned to increase by more than UAH 400 billion, most of which will be spent on defense. Meanwhile, the survey showed that 68% of Ukrainians have no savings due to low incomes, and housing in hryvnia in some cities has risen in price by more than 80%.

Other news includes an investigation into embezzlement at Ukrzaliznytsia tenders, the collapse of oil prices after de-escalation between Israel and Iran, the division of business between former partners of Galia Baluvana, new data on Ukraine's growing public debt, and the expansion of preferential roaming in the EU.

It also became known that the United Kingdom for the first time bought weapons for Ukraine with interest from frozen Russian assets, and MFIs are increasingly competing with banks in the consumer loan market. Read more about these and other topics in the weekly digest LIGA.net .