The Enforcement Division of the State Enforcement Service has once again listed the Lustdorf sports and recreation complex (Odessa) on the OpenMarket electronic platform (SE “SETAM” of the Ministry of Justice) at a starting price of UAH 191.9 million.
According to the SETAM press service, the total area of the complex is 7,700 square meters. The lot includes an administrative building, a hotel, a sports and recreation complex, a football field, stands, boiler rooms, etc. The land plot is not included in the lot.
The auction is scheduled for January 1, 2026. The guarantee deposit is UAH 9.5 million.
As reported, in 2021, the Kyiv District Court of Odesa upheld the claim of the National Bank of Ukraine against the former owner of Imexbank, Leonid Klimov, and ruled to sell the Lyustdorf sports and recreation complex in Odesa at an open auction to repay UAH 309 million of the bank’s debt on the stabilization loan provided to it.
As the owner of Imexbank, Klimov entered into surety and mortgage agreements with the National Bank in 2014, assuming personal obligations to repay the regulator’s debt on the bank’s stabilization loans.
In January 2016, the National Bank went to court to collect the debt through legal proceedings, as Klimov had failed to fulfill his obligations under the guarantee agreement.
On January 26, 2015, the NBU decided to classify Imexbank as insolvent, and on May 21, 2015, it revoked the bank’s license and liquidated the financial institution.
Since the beginning of 2025, 324 MW of new wind power capacity has been built in Ukraine, while in the previous two years—between 2022 and the first quarter of 2025—248 MW of new wind power capacity was commissioned. This was announced by Andriy Konechenkov, Chairman of the Board of the Ukrainian Wind Energy Association (UWEA), at a press conference entitled “Wind Energy and UHE in 2025: A Year of New Decisions, Challenges, and Growth” at the Interfax-Ukraine news agency on Friday.
“Today, about 40% of this volume has already been connected to the grid and is generating electricity, the rest is in the testing stage, and companies promise us that, if not by the end of this year, then by the end of the first quarter of 2026, all 324 MW will be generating electricity,” he said.
In addition, according to Konechenkov, new wind farm projects with a total capacity of 4.5 GW are still being implemented in Ukraine, of which 44% are located in the west of the country, 34% in the central regions, and the remaining 22% in the south of Ukraine, primarily in the Odesa and Mykolaiv regions.
According to the UEA, the total capacity of wind farms installed in Ukraine is currently 2.3 GW, of which 1.3 GW are located in the temporarily occupied territory.
The country also has 534 MW of total installed capacity of energy storage systems (BESS).
Ukrproduct Group, a major Ukrainian producer of packaged butter and processed cheese, maintained stable production levels at its main production sites in January-September 2025 and implemented business continuity protocols that had been refined since the start of the full-scale invasion.
“Exports accounted for 20.4% of total sales, strengthening the group’s position as one of Ukraine’s leading dairy exporters,” the company said in a report published on the London Stock Exchange on Thursday.
At the same time, processed cheese production volumes fell by 8.5%, which the company attributed to lower demand in the domestic market.
At the same time, Ukrproduct’s sales of processed cheese products increased by 8.1% due to consumers switching to cheaper alternatives. Sales of butter on the domestic market declined due to a significant decrease in profitability, but overall they increased by 25.8% due to exports.
The increase in exports of spreads boosted sales of spreads by 5% and sales of skimmed milk powder and skimmed milk products by 74.7%.
At the same time, kombucha sales increased by 30.6%, while kvass sales decreased by 13.3% due to cooler summer weather and a reduction in the number of keg sales outlets, the company explained.
During the period in question, Ukrproduct increased its sales of sunflower seeds more than fourfold, which it attributed to the diversification of its product range.
“Profitability remained under pressure due to dependence on diesel fuel, product spoilage, inflation in raw material prices, rising personnel costs, and continued instability in the energy sector,” the company said.
Ukrproduct Group is a large Ukrainian producer of packaged oil, processed cheese, and kvass. It produces dairy products under the trademarks Nash Molokhnik, Nash Sirok, Molendam, and Vershkovaya Dolina, as well as kvass under the trademark Arsenyevsky.
Ukrproduct Group consists of two plants in Zhytomyr (one specializing in processed cheese, the other producing kvass), as well as two enterprises in the Khmelnytskyi region: a milk plant in Starokostiantyniv, which produces packaged butter, spreads, cheese, and dry milk, and a dairy plant in Letychiv.
The group’s production facilities have the capacity to produce up to 70,000 tons of dairy products per year.
In January–September 2025, the KSG Agro agricultural holding increased its revenue from the sale of live pigs by 48.3% to $9.22 million, compared to $6.21 million in the same period of 2024.
According to the agricultural holding’s report, published on the Warsaw Stock Exchange on Thursday, profits in the pig farming segment for the specified period amounted to almost $1.936 million.
“Despite the war, there is a stable demand for high-quality pork in Ukraine. This summer, our herd was replenished with 500 purebred sows from Danish Pig Genetics, supplied by Breeders of Denmark A/S (Denmark). This made it possible to renew the pig population with 4,000 of the most stable, highly productive F-1 hybrid sows,” said Sergey Kasyanov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of KSG Agro.
He assured that all pork produced at the agricultural holding’s pig farms goes to the domestic market, which makes it possible to effectively ensure Ukraine’s food security during the war.
The vertically integrated holding company KSG Agro is engaged in pig breeding, as well as the production, storage, processing, and sale of grain and oilseeds. Its land bank in the Dnipropetrovsk and Kherson regions is about 21,000 hectares.
According to KSG Agro, it is one of the top five pork producers in Ukraine.
In 2023, the agricultural holding began implementing a “network-centric” strategy, under which it will transition from developing a large location to a number of smaller pig farms located in different regions of the country.
In January-September 2025, KSG Agro received $5.96 million in operating profit and $6.92 million in gross profit, which is 68% and 31% more than in the same period of 2024.
Nova Poshta, Ukraine’s leading express delivery service from the Nova Group, is operating 147 branches in Odesa on generators, while the state postal operator Ukrposhta is providing a full range of services in 72 branches despite power supply problems after shelling in the region.
“In isolated cases (several branches), where it was not possible to connect generators immediately due to technical issues, operators accepted and delivered parcels manually so as not to interrupt customer service until the situation was resolved as quickly as possible,” Ukrposhta said in a comment to Interfax-Ukraine.
The Nova Poshta Telegram channel notes that the company’s branches offer the opportunity to recharge phones, use the internet, and warm up. Ukrposhta provides the same services in its branches.
Separately, Ukrposhta added in a comment to the agency that the branches’ working hours have not changed.
As reported, as a result of a massive missile and drone attack by the Russian Federation on the night of December 12-13, four 330 kV substations of the National Energy Company Ukrenergo were damaged and approximately 60% of consumers in Odesa and the region were cut off from the power supply. A significant portion of consumers were left without electricity and heating for three days or more.
In addition, on December 18, the enemy launched another attack on the infrastructure, which again led to power outages.
The Global Environment Facility (GEF), under the leadership of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), has approved eight projects totaling nearly $60 million aimed at improving agri-landscape management, developing climate-oriented and biodiversity-friendly livestock farming, and restoring forest, coastal and marine ecosystems.
According to a press release from the FAO, Ukraine will receive $5.4 million in funding to restore and maintain accessible forests and agroforestry systems to ensure climate resilience, enhance ecosystem services, and promote green recovery from the effects of war.
In addition, Tanzania will receive $2.4 million, Congo – $6 million, Bangladesh – $9.2 million, India – $9.9 and $8.8 million, Mexico – $8 million, and Senegal – $8.9 million.
The approved projects will attract about $429 million in co-financing and improve the management of 305,000 hectares of protected areas on land and at sea. They also provide for the restoration of 314,000 hectares of landscapes, improved management of 1.2 million hectares of productive land, and a reduction of 84.5 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions, benefiting more than 1 million people on four continents, the FAO said.
“Our portfolio and partnership with the GEF have become more integrated and effective over the years, allowing us to more effectively implement four areas of improvement, leaving no one behind: improving production, improving nutrition, improving the environment, and improving lives,” said FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu, whose words are quoted in the statement.
The FAO-GEF partnership currently provides 142 countries with funding for agrifood system solutions. The FAO-GEF portfolio for supporting environmental, climate, and biodiversity conservation measures in agriculture and food systems exceeds $2 billion in grant funding and has already attracted more than $14 billion in co-financing.
