The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) fined the Scientific and Production Enterprise Razrabotka. Energetika. Machine Building“ and LLC ”Scientific and Production Association “System Energy” for 5 million 232,633 thousand UAH for anti-competitive actions during tenders for the purchase of diesel fuel by the state-owned specialized economic enterprise (SSEE) “Lesa Ukrainy” in 2023.
According to the AMCU website, in 2023, SSE Lesy Ukrainy held a tender for the purchase of diesel fuel with an expected value of more than UAH 178 million, in which, in particular, NPP Razrabotka. Energetika. Mashinostroenie and NPO Sistema Energo took part.
“By its decision of July 3, 2025, the AMCU established that during their participation in the tender, NPP ”Development. Energy. Machine Building“ and NPO ”System Energy“ did not act independently, but coordinated their behavior with the aim of eliminating competition, which is a violation of the Law ”On
Protection of Economic Competition,” the committee stated.
At the same time, as noted by the AMCU, according to the Law “On Public Procurement,” the basis for refusal to participate in the procurement procedure is the fact that the business entity (participant) has been held liable for anti-competitive concerted actions related to the distortion of tender results within the last three years.
According to YouControl, the sole founder and ultimate beneficiary of NPP Razrabotka. Energetika. Mashinostroenie LLC, registered on October 19, 2023, in Kyiv with a charter capital of UAH 30,000, is Mykhailo Storozhuk with a 100% share.
In turn, the sole founder of NPO Sistema Energo LLC, with a charter capital of 10,000, is Alina Goncharuk, who also holds a 100% stake.
Individual entrepreneurs (FOPs) who work in Group 3 of the single tax system and do not have employees can now submit quarterly tax returns via “Diyu,” where the program will automatically calculate taxes and pull previous figures, according to Deputy Prime Minister for Innovation, Education, Science, and Technology and Head of the Ministry of Digital Transformation Mikhail Fedorov.
“We are currently working on a comprehensive overhaul of the tax payment service in Diya to make the process even more convenient. Stay tuned for updates,” Fedorov wrote on Telegram on Friday.
He clarified that the declaration is submitted by sole proprietors in the third group who are not VAT payers.
Fedorov reminded that the single tax for such persons is 5% of income, the military levy is 1% of income, and the unified social tax is 22% of the minimum wage. The military levy will be calculated automatically based on income.
The deadline for filing the declaration is August 11.
The Ministry of Economy and Finance of the Republic of Korea has launched a new Economic Innovation Partnership Program (EIPP) with Ukraine for the next four years, for which the Korean government will allocate $10 million, according to a statement on the website of the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine on Friday.
According to the Ministry of Economy, the initiative provides for strategic consulting, project development, and pre-project research aimed at long-term economic cooperation between the two countries. It is expected that up to 25 initiatives may be implemented under this program.
During a meeting with First Deputy Minister of Economy of Ukraine Oleksiy Sobolev, representatives of the delegation from the Korea Infrastructure and Urban Development Corporation (KIND) outlined which projects would be prioritized.
The Ministry of Economy, in turn, noted that it sees great prospects for partnership with KIND under the new program, both in the public and private sectors, in particular with regard to possible involvement in financing priority initiatives for the government within the framework of the Unified Project Portfolio of Public Investments, as well as private projects presented in the investment guide.
“We hope that KIND will participate in the technical preparation of projects, as we do within the PPF and PPU with the World Bank, the European Investment Bank (EIB), and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). Another promising area is privatization, consulting assistance, and attracting investors,” the ministry’s press service quoted Sobolev as saying.
The Ministry of Economy reported that KIND is ready to join the master planning of industrial parks in Ukraine and work on reducing risks for investors. The parties discussed the possibility of involving the Republic of Korea in cooperation with the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) and export credit agencies to expand military risk insurance mechanisms.
The parties agreed to coordinate work in each area of cooperation and to sign a memorandum of understanding that would allow work to begin on selecting projects for financing and implementation.
The Korean state corporation KIND has been implementing projects to rebuild Ukraine for more than two years, including a transport master plan for the Kyiv region, a plan to reconstruct and rebuild Ukrainian airports, railway renovation, and other projects involving cities and municipalities.
The death toll from flooding in south-central Texas has risen to 52, including 15 children, according to EFE.
“Fifty-two people have died in flooding in south-central Texas, including 15 children,” the report said.
Kerr County Sheriff Larry Lait Jr. said hundreds of rescue workers remain in flooded areas and search and rescue efforts are still ongoing.
He asked residents to send information about missing loved ones and their last known location.
Avesterra Group intends to increase its poultry population to 10 million, build a feed mill, and expand its land bank to 25,000 hectares, co-owner Dmitry Dobkin said in an interview with Liga.net.
“We will build poultry farms. We currently have capacity for 4.1 million birds. We need to develop this to 10 million birds per batch. In turn, this pace of development requires the modernization of the existing feed mill or the construction of a new one. This is because the existing one will definitely not be able to cope with the new production capacity,” he said.
Dobkin said that the group had accumulated a land bank of 3,000 hectares for the construction of a modern poultry processing plant in the Volyn region. However, in order to be independent from external cataclysms and to provide the poultry farm with feed, there are plans to expand the land bank to 25,000 hectares of fields.
He said that another way to minimize production risks is to create their own incubation facility, including the formation of a parent flock.
“Then the entire chain from egg to finished meat will be ours,” Dobkin emphasized.
Avesterra Group was established in January 2025. It includes Volodymyr-Volynskyi Poultry Farm and Lutsk Agrarian Company, which produce 53,000 tons of broiler meat per year. Annual revenue is about UAH 4 billion. Of the 5,000 tons of total production, 700 tons are sold under the Epicur brand, and the rest under the Chebaturochka brand.
In June 2025, the group launched a processing plant, in which it invested EUR 60 million. It is located in Volyn, covers 30,000 square meters, and has new treatment facilities.
The business is owned in equal shares by the Dobkin family.
Volodymyr-Volynskyi Poultry Farm accounts for about 5% of the Ukrainian chicken market. It has seven branches: Kharkiv, Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipro, Vinnytsia, Lviv, and Volodymyr. The factory’s infrastructure consists of 100 poultry houses, a slaughterhouse, and a feed mill. The company also has its own land fund of 3,000 hectares, where it grows cereals and legumes for the production of compound feed, as well as industrial crops. The factory employs over 1,500 people.
The TAS Agro agricultural holding has begun harvesting early grains from winter wheat in the Southern cluster and has already threshed about 600 hectares, the agricultural holding’s press service reported on Facebook.
TAS Agro specified that the harvest started at the optimal time and that grain yields are fully in line with standards.
“This year, we will make maximum use of our own equipment, which has been updated in recent years. However, we will not refuse to lease combines for economic reasons. In total, we plan to use 75 units of grain harvesting equipment during the harvest. This is more than last year, as the area under early grain crops has increased, particularly in the Southern cluster. Almost all of our own grain transshipment equipment will also be used,” said Oleg Zapletnyuk, CEO of TAS Agro.
According to him, in parallel with the harvesting campaign, the agricultural holding is working on organizing logistics and sales of the harvested crop. Storage facilities and some elevators have already been certified to the international standard ISO 22000:2018.
For the 2025 harvest, TAS Agro has sown 22,000 hectares of winter wheat, 14,000 hectares of winter rapeseed, 16,000 hectares of sunflower, 15,000 hectares of soybeans, and 7,000 hectares of corn.
Soon, in the Southern cluster, parallel to the wheat harvest, the rapeseed harvest will begin. Over the next few weeks, the harvest will spread to other clusters, the agricultural holding concluded.
TAS Agro was established in 2014. Its land bank includes 88,000 hectares in the Chernihiv, Sumy, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Kirovohrad, and Mykolaiv regions. It specializes in crop production, and the agricultural holding’s elevator capacity is about 250,000 tons. The livestock business is represented by a herd of 5,500 head of cattle, of which 2,500 are dairy cattle.
The agricultural holding is part of the TAS group, founded in 1998.
Its business interests include the financial sector (banking and insurance segments) and pharmacies, as well as industry, real estate, and venture projects.
The founder of TAS and beneficiary of the TAS Agro agricultural holding is Serhiy Tihipko.
