A studio of comfortable lingerie by the Ukrainian brand brabrabra is scheduled to open in the capital’s Ocean Mall, the company’s press service reports.
“The brabrabra brand encourages everyone to choose themselves and comfortable underwear for themselves soon in a new studio at the Ocean Mall. This location will provide more opportunities to see the maximum variety of lingerie and leisurewear collections – completely different designs, fabrics and comfortable designs that guarantee a sense of comfort for everyone,” the press release says.
The studio will be located on 65 square meters. It is noted that the brabrabra brand has a wide range of sizes, from A to J and from XS to 4XL, which covers more than 90% of women’s bra requests. Professional brafitters from the brand’s team will help you determine the right size and choose comfortable underwear.
Ocean Mall is a retail resort shopping center. The total area is 300 thousand square meters and has a parking lot for 4 thousand cars. The mall has 800 shops and 50 restaurants. Among the largest tenants are Silpo grocery supermarket, flagship stores of the world’s largest retailers in the segments of fashion, sports, and home furnishings. More than 30 thousand square meters in Ocean Mall are dedicated to entertainment, including the Galaxy amusement park for the whole family and a seven-screen multiplex cinema.
The European pharmaceutical association Medicines for Europe, the Ministry of Health, and the Association of Ukrainian Pharmaceutical Manufacturers (AVLU) have signed a memorandum of partnership in the field of critical medicines. The memorandum was signed on the sidelines of the Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC2025) in Rome last week.
According to Adrian Van Den Goevaert, CEO of Medicines for Europe, Ukraine’s participation in the Critical Medicines Alliance and its experience in sharing responses, together with regulatory integration into EU systems based on alignment with EU technical and procedural rules, anti-corruption measures, the creation of an independent medicines agency in Ukraine, and mutual recognition of GMP certificates are becoming key priorities for EU-Ukraine pharmaceutical cooperation.
For his part, Anatoliy Reder, CEO of the pharmaceutical company Interchem (Odessa), noted that the memorandum will enable Ukrainian pharmaceutical companies to participate in the production of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) for EU countries.
“The memorandum shows that Ukraine is highly developed in the field of pharmaceutical production and is ready to participate in supplying critical medicines to EU countries. We already have certain positions from the list of critical medicines and can very quickly ensure the production of the rest. We can produce APIs in the quantities required by the EU,” he said.
According to Reder, the production of APIs and drugs from the critical list will be convenient for both Ukraine and the EU.
“Ukraine has a highly developed and modern production control system. The requirements for the production of medicines in Ukraine are sometimes higher than in European countries, so we can ensure reliable supplies of high-quality products,” he said.
At the same time, Reder noted that in order to launch a project for the production of critical medicines, European manufacturers need support from European official bodies so that they can include Ukrainian production sites in their dossiers as additional sources of APIs.
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In 2025, the 10-year period of cooperation between Nova Poshta and CEO Oleksandr Bulba ends, the company’s press service reports.
It is noted that under Bulba’s leadership, the company has achieved the most ambitious results.
“Between 2015 and 2025, Nova Poshta increased its annual delivery volume from 93 million to 500 million (as planned for the end of 2025). By the end of this year, the company’s network will cover 50 thousand service points across the country, 25 times more than at the beginning of cooperation with Bulba. Parcels in Ukraine are consistently delivered in less than 24 hours, and the international business is showing steady growth.
The press release emphasizes that the period of full-scale war deserves special attention. Despite the mobilization of the team, constant attacks on infrastructure and destroyed logistics routes, the company not only maintained its stability but also continued to develop, introduce new services and support the country’s economy.
“The success of Nova Poshta is the result of the consistent work of the CEO and the large team he led. For many years in a row, Oleksandr Bulba has been recognized as one of the most effective leaders in Ukraine. At the same time, any success comes at a price, and even the most successful projects need a fresh look. That’s why the company’s co-owners, together with Oleksandr, made a joint decision: 2025 will be his final year as CEO of
Nova Poshta. Until the end of the year, Bulba will continue to lead the company, focusing on the implementation of the approved development strategy,” the release said.
Thus, on December 31, 2025, Nova Poshta will have a new CEO. The co-owners and the Supervisory Board express their deep gratitude to Bulba for the years of fruitful cooperation and his invaluable contribution to the company’s development.
The Verkhovna Rada has supported a bill to introduce a 10% export duty on soybeans, kohlrabi and rapeseed (crushed and uncrushed) with an annual 1% reduction in the rate by 2030, to 5%, MP Serhiy Labaziuk (For the Future parliamentary faction) said in a telegram channel.
The MP added that at the same time a special fund will be created – the State Fund for Support of Agricultural Producers, which, given the existing export volumes (without adjustment for a 10% decrease in value/volumes) of oilseeds, will amount to almost $500 million.
“But with the increase in processing, changes in export prices, and a decrease in the volume of raw materials, revenues will fall. And it will be difficult not to give part of the revenues to the state budget. Therefore, if we manage to raise UAH 3-5 billion for the fund, it will be a victory,” Labaziuk said.
MP Oleksiy Honcharenko (European Solidarity faction) clarified in a Telegram that 245 MPs supported the draft law.
“This is just a shame. They sneaked in the draft law on industrial pollution – duties for farmers. They promised to serve the people, but they serve schemes,” he commented on the document.
As reported, the “soybean amendments” are changes to the Tax Code of Ukraine introduced at the end of 2017. They concerned the procedure for VAT (value-added tax) refunds for soybean and rapeseed exports.
For several years in a row, Stepan Kapshuk, CEO of the Ukroliyaprom association, proposed to ban the export of 50% of the rapeseed crop from the country to increase the utilization of Ukrainian processing capacities, which, in particular in 2024, were significantly short of raw materials.
Subsequently, Dmytro Kysylevskyi, deputy chairman of the parliamentary committee on economic development, prepared draft law No. 13134, which, with amendment No. 40, provided for the introduction of a 10% export duty on rapeseed and soybeans. He argued that Ukrainian soybean and rapeseed processing plants are underutilized by 35%, and if they are used, Ukraine will receive an additional UAH 7.3 billion in state budget revenues to finance the Armed Forces, and an additional $238 million will allow for the construction of dozens of plants and the creation of thousands of new jobs.
A number of associations criticized the idea of the draft law “On Amendments to the Tax Code of Ukraine on Expanding Patient Access to Medicines Subject to Procurement by a Person Authorized to Make Procurement in the Healthcare Sector by Concluding Managed Access Agreements”, which provided for the imposition of duties on the export of soybeans and rapeseed from Ukraine. According to the business associations, they are discriminatory towards small and medium-sized producers, aim to increase the profits of processors at the expense of small and medium-sized farmers and violate the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement.
On June 18, the Verkhovna Rada did not support this initiative.
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) will cover the risks of Credit Agricole Bank (Kyiv) for EUR 100 million on new business loans in various sectors of the economy – agribusiness, manufacturing, energy and logistics, as well as to support Ukraine’s energy security.
According to the bank’s website, a EUR 100 million risk-sharing agreement to boost lending to medium and large businesses in the agribusiness, manufacturing, energy and logistics sectors, as well as to support energy security, was signed on July 11, 2025.
About 30% of the loan funds are planned to be used to finance small-scale renewable energy projects, the implementation of climate-smart solutions in agriculture, and energy efficiency measures.
The program is being implemented with the financial support of the French government, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and the UK Department for International Development under the World Bank Group’s Guarantee Facility.
According to the National Bank of Ukraine, as of April 1, 2025, Credit Agricole Bank ranked 11th in terms of total assets among 60 banks in the country – UAH 119.6 billion, or 3.2% of the market.
Grocery supermarket chain Varus will invest UAH 150 million in the installation of rooftop solar power plants (SPP) at 48 of its 115 facilities, the Ukrainian Council of Shopping Centers (UCC) has reported.
According to the report, the total capacity of the SPP will reach 4.8 thousand kWh, which will generate more than 5 million kW of electricity per year. The payback period of the project is estimated at two years.
The planned generation will amount to 21% of the annual consumption of supermarkets, with annual savings of UAH 50 million. It is noted that the company has chosen the model of direct consumption of generated energy due to the high cost of storage systems. The SPP will cover 95% of supermarkets’ electricity needs during the day.
The company plans to further expand the project to the entire supermarket chain and explore the possibility of installing gas diesel generators.
As reported, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has issued a $25 million loan to Varus for the reconstruction and modernization of equipment in existing stores, lease of a new warehouse, and installation of a solar power plant to reduce dependence on the grid.
Varus is a national supermarket chain represented on the Ukrainian grocery retail market by Omega. The chain’s first store was opened in 2003 in Dnipro, and the total number of its stores is 114 in different cities of Ukraine, including a DarkStore in Kyiv. The chain operates in several formats: classic supermarkets, To Go stores and the online store varus.ua.
According to Opendatabot, the owner of Omega LLC is Cyprus-based Weigant Enterprises Limited, with Valeriy Kiptyk and Ruslan Shostak listed as the ultimate beneficiaries.
According to the company’s financial results for 2024, its revenue increased by 14.3% compared to the previous year and amounted to UAH 20 billion. The company’s net profit decreased by 80.9% to UAH 38.2 million.
