URIF Holds Fourth Board Meeting at Ukraine Recovery Conference The U.S.–Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund (URIF) held its fourth board meeting on Wednesday, June 24, on the sidelines of the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Gdańsk, Poland. At the meeting, URIF’s Board of Directors discussed the landmark cooperation agreement between the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) – the home of the World Bank Group Guarantee Platform – that will support Political Risk Insurance (PRI) for URIF investments. The cooperation agreement will help URIF leverage catalytic donor capital and mobilize significant private financing to develop and rebuild Ukraine’s critical infrastructure and industries. The Board also approved items to further operationalize URIF, including a critical minerals offtake initial whitelist.  

At URC 2026, humanitarian demining was presented as a сornerstone for investment and Ukraine's economic recovery Representatives of international financial institutions, donor organisations, humanitarian demining operators, businesses, and the Government of Ukraine discussed how to integrate humanitarian demining into recovery programmes, attract a broader range of investors, and develop financing mechanisms to accelerate the return of land to safe use.

Kyiv restaurants sold nearly 1,500 dishes as part of the “Soul of Soil: Dishes from Demined Fields” campaign The “Soul of Soil: Dishes from Demined Fields” campaign, which brought together 12 Kyiv restaurants around the topic of humanitarian demining, raised UAH 120,446 in support of the Humanitarian Demining direction of the UNITED24 fundraising platform.

Five finalists of the Minesight Innovation Challenge to receive $100,000 each to advance solutions that accelerate humanitarian demining — three of them Ukrainian manufacturers The selection stage of the Minesight Innovation Challenge — an international engineering competition dedicated to excavation, one of the most difficult, hazardous, and resource-intensive stages of humanitarian demining — has concluded.

Lviv Taste Fair 2026 becomes a platform for supporting small and medium-sized enterprises and Ukraine’s gastronomy sector On 24 May, the Lviv Taste Fair 2026 took place in Lviv — a gastronomic event that, for the fourth consecutive year, has brought together Ukrainian producers, farmers, experts and food enthusiasts from across the country.