  We study relations between the additive and the multiplicative groups of a
two-sided skew brace. In particular, we prove that if the additive group of a
two-sided skew brace is finite solvable (respectively, finitely generated
nilpotent, finitely generated residually nilpotent, finitely generated
residually finite), then the multiplicative group of this skew brace is
solvable (respectively, solvable, residually solvable, residually finite).
Also, we prove that if the multiplicative group of a two-sided skew brace is
nilpotent of nilpotency class $k$, then the additive group of this skew brace
is solvable of class at most $2k$. The letter result generalizes the result of
Byott which says that if the multiplicative group of a finite skew brace is
abelian, then the additive group of this skew brace is solvable.
  In addition, we solve two problems (Problem 19.49 and Problem 19.90(a))
concerning skew braces which are formulated in the Kourovka notebook.
