Poland and South Korea agreed to participate in Ukraine’s recovery and signed a memorandum on cooperation in post-war reconstruction, the Chosun Ilbo reports. President Yoon Suk Yeol, who visited Warsaw on an official visit, held a high-level meeting with Polish President Andrzej Duda. The two countries’ leaders signed a memorandum of understanding and cooperation in … Read more
How much do programmers, product managers, and web architects in Ukraine earn on average compared to those in Poland, Germany, and the United States? NV Business publishes the average salaries of tech professionals in those countries according to data from the consulting company Korn Ferry. The Polish market is the most similar to the Ukrainian … Read more
Poland is exploring the creation of an experimental Ukraine border crossing to streamline freight truck passage, thanks to the combined efforts of Ukrainian and Polish border guards and customs officers. This was announced by Grzegorz Ostach, a board member of the Polish Investment and Trade Agency (PAIT), during a July 4 conference on the development … Read more
Since the beginning of the full-scale war in Ukraine, on February 24, 2022, at least 21 IT companies with Ukrainian roots started operating in Poland. This is reported by the portal DOU.eu. Currently, these companies employ 870 specialists in Poland, mainly in Warsaw, Kraków, and Wrocław, and more than 15,000 globally. Among the companies with … Read more
Ukraine’s state energy operator Ukrenergo worked together with its Polish counterpart PSE to link the countries’ power grids with a 400-kilometer-long high-voltage transmission line, Ukrenergo said in a Facebook post on May 2. The interconnection has been operational since April 27 and successfully passed three days’ worth of testing. Ukrenergo emphasized that the cross-border power transmission line … Read more
Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry sent notes to the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Ukraine and the EU representation in Ukraine on April 28 decrying the “categorical unacceptability of the situation regarding trade restrictions on the import of Ukrainian agricultural products.” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Oleh Nikolenko wrote on Facebook on April 29 that such restrictions on Ukrainian … Read more
Ukrzaliznytsia, Ukraine’s national railway operator, has resumed the export of Ukrainian agricultural products through Poland for the first time since April 24, Interfax-Ukraine reported on April 24. The shipments are authorized for land transit and for transit to the seaports of Gdańsk, Gdynia, Świnoujście, and Szczecin. Ukrzaliznytsia received a notification about the lifting of restrictions from the … Read more
Ukraine and Poland have reached an agreement on restarting transit of Ukrainian grain, Ukraine’s Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food reported on April 18. The transit will restart overnight on April 21. Additional control measures will be applied to transit shipments and will be publicly announced to suppliers shortly, the agency said. Ukraine understands the situation among … Read more
Slovakia will temporarily suspend grain imports from Ukraine, following Poland and Hungary, according to Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger’s Facebook post on April 17. Heger said that an ad hoc group would convene to discuss the issue and report their findings at a later date. Poland banned grain imports from Ukraine on April 15, but expressed a willingness … Read more
Farmers in Poland are dissatisfied with Ukrainian grain imports flooding the market, to the point of threatening to blockade the Dorohusk-Jagodzin border crossing in protest, Polish news outlet RMF24 reported on April 7. According to the report, the activist farmers plan to block the crossing on April 12-15, after increased grain imports from Ukraine led … Read more