Business news from Ukraine

Business news from Ukraine

Trump punishes opponents of Greenland annexation with tariffs

US President Donald Trump has announced the introduction of 10% tariffs against Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, and Finland from February 1, Clash Report reports.
“Starting February 1, 2026, all of the above countries (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Finland) will be subject to a 10% tariff on all goods shipped to the United States of America. On June 1, 2026, the tariff will be increased to 25%,” he wrote on the social network Truth Social.
Trump noted that these countries are directly opposing US attempts to take over Greenland.
“These tariffs will be assessed and payable until an agreement is reached on the complete and absolute purchase of Greenland,” he added.

 

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Ukrainian film “Two Prosecutors” hits Serbian theaters

According to Serbian Economist, two notable premieres are expected in Serbian cinemas in January: the family teen film “The Second Diary of Paulina P.” by Croatian director Neven Hitrec and the historical drama “Two Prosecutors” by Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa.

The sequel to The Diary of Paulina P. will be released in Serbian cinemas on January 22. In the plot, the main character Paulina is now 11 years old and faces new challenges at school and at home.

Loznitsa’s film “Two Prosecutors” reportedly hit Serbian screens in early January. The film is based on the novella of the same name by Georgy Demidov and tells a story set in the USSR in 1937 against the backdrop of the Stalin era.

Two Prosecutors had its world premiere in Cannes and was awarded the Golden Tower as the best film in the main competition program of the 32nd European Film Festival in Palić.

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In December, SK Unica reduced insurance payments by 14.3%

In December 2025, Unica Insurance Company (Kyiv) paid out UAH 206.1 million in insurance claims, which is 14.3% less than in December 2024 (UAH 240.55 million).

According to the company’s website, the total amount of insurance payments under auto insurance contracts amounted to UAH 95.55 million (+54.1%), of which UAH 68.52 million (+48.4%) was for comprehensive insurance and UAH 27.03 million (+99.8%) was for compulsory motor third-party liability insurance.

The total amount of payments under voluntary health insurance contracts amounted to UAH 81.16 million (-9.5%), property insurance payments – UAH 1.62 million (UAH 41.2 million for the same period a year earlier), other types of insurance (including life insurance) – UAH 27.77 million (-41.9%).

UNIQA Group (Austria) entered the Ukrainian market in 2006. Its companies in Ukraine, Unica and Unica Life, with central offices, offer most types of risk insurance and life insurance.

 

Noble Capital Fund demands Russia pay $225.8 billion in debts owed by tsarist government

Noble Capital RSD LLC has filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against the Russian Federation, the Russian Ministry of Finance, the Bank of Russia, and the Russian National Wealth Fund, demanding recognition of obligations on sovereign bonds of the Russian Empire placed with investors in the US and recovery of at least $225.8 billion from the defendants. The court documents are available here: https://ia800707.us.archive.org/35/items/gov.uscourts.dcd.281398/gov.uscourts.dcd.281398.1.0.pdf

According to the text of the complaint, the plaintiff is asking the court to issue a declaratory judgment on the principal debt and interest (adjusted for gold), as well as to recognize the possibility of “setting off” of this amount against “blocked sovereign assets of the Russian Federation” in accounts at financial institutions where such assets may be located. Claims for interim measures have also been filed – a ban on the transfer or “mobilization” of blocked assets and the appointment of an equitable receiver for the purposes of recovery.

The case materials indicate that the defendants were notified of the lawsuit on October 1, 2025, and the court granted the Russian side an extension to respond to the lawsuit until January 29, 2026.

This approach (set-off through a private law dispute) can be seen as an attempt to shift the discussion of frozen assets from the realm of political confiscation to the realm of civil law mechanisms.

After February 24, 2022, some countries froze significant amounts of Russian sovereign assets. The European Union froze €210 billion, with Euroclear holding approximately €193 billion of these funds.

https://ia800707.us.archive.org/35/items/gov.uscourts.dcd.281398/gov.uscourts.dcd.281398.1.0.pdf

Noble Capital RSD LLC is a private company in the form of an LLC registered in the state of Delaware (USA). In court documents, it is described as the assignee and legal owner of a block of “sovereign bonds” placed in the US during the Russian Empire.

 

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Court sets bail for Yuliya Tymoshenko in amount of 33 million hryvnias

Investigating judge of the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court (SACS) Vitaly Dubas has set bail at 33 million hryvnias (about 770 thousand dollars) for Yulia Tymoshenko, suspected of offering to provide undue benefits to MPs, leader of the parliamentary faction “Batkivshchyna”, Yulia Tymoshenko.

“To satisfy in part the petition. To apply to… Tymoshenko a measure of restraint in the form of bail in the amount of… 33 million 280 thousand hryvnias,” the judge said.

He also added that the suspect had been assigned procedural duties.

According to the judge, the bail can be made either by the suspect herself or by another person within five days to the account of the VAKS.

“To impose the following duties on Tymoshenko until 16.03 2026: to arrive at each summons to the NABU detective or the court…. not to leave the geographical boundaries of the Kiev region… to report … about changes in her place of residence or work,” the judge said.

Also among the procedural obligations for Tymoshenko is to hand over documents for traveling abroad. The wearing of an electronic bracelet for Tymoshenko has not been determined by the court. In addition, according to the court ruling, Tymoshenko is prohibited from communicating with a number of MPs, including Igor Kopytin (“Servant of the People”), about the circumstances outlined in the suspicion.

Earlier in the session, Tymoshenko said that the recording made public by anti-corruption authorities was compiled by Kopytin together with the NABU. “Had a goal: on the one hand, Kopytin – to get rid of the criminal case that NABU has, and on the other hand, NABU carried out a political order – specifically to discredit me as a person who consistently, persistently, daily conducts parliamentary activities, so that laws that directly contradict the national interests of Ukraine were not voted,” – said the leader of the parliamentary faction.

After the announcement of the court ruling, Tymoshenko noted to journalists that the list of MPs whose communication with whom the court prohibited due to the circumstances of the faction leader’s case includes those who at least once voted in the Rada in the way called for by the Fatherland faction.

Later, the Anti-Corruption Center published a full list of 65 MPs with whom Tymoshenko must refrain from communicating, particularly from the Servant of the People faction: Arsenyuk Oleh, Babiy Roman, Bohdanets Andriy, Bozhyk Valeriy, Bunin Serhiy, Wagner Viktoriya, Vasilyev Ihor, Galushko Mykola, Gerasymenko Ihor, Gorobets Oleksandr, Gorenyuk Oleksandr, Hryshchenko Tetyana, Guzenko Maksym, Danutsa Oleksandr, Didenko Yulia, Dmitrieva Alexandra, Zaguroyko Alina, Zadorozhny Andrey, Zaslavsky Yuriy, Kitsak Bogdan, Klochko Andrey, Koval Olga, Kozak Vladimir, Kolyukh Valery, Kopytin Igor, Krivosheev Igor, Kuznetsov Oleksiy, Kuzminykh Serhiy, Lis Elena, Litvinenko Serhiy, Lyubota Dmitry, Mazurashu Georgiy, Mandziy Serhiy, Marusyak Oleg, Marchenko Lyudmyla, Melnyk Serhiy, Mokan Vasily, Murdiy Igor, Nagaevsky Artem, Nikitina Maria, Novikov Mikhail, Ostapanko Anatoliy, Pavlish Pavel, Pavliuk Maksim, Pasichnyy Oleksandr, Pashkovsky Maxim, Petrunyak Eugene, Priputen Dmitry, Saladukha Olga, Solomchuk Dmitry, Sterniychuk Valery, Sushko Pavel, Shvachko Anton, Shol Margarita, Shpak Lyubov, Shulyak Elena, Chernomorov Artem, Yunakov Ivan, Yakovleva Nelly, Yakimenko Pavel; “For the Future” – Torokhtiy Bohdan; “Batkivshchyna” – Mykolaenko Andriy; non-fractional: Dmytro Kostyuk, Dmytro Razumkov and Dmytro Mykisha.

 

Ukrainians are among top five most active tourists in Montenegro

According to the Serbian Economist, citizens of Ukraine ranked fifth among the key foreign tourism markets of Montenegro in terms of the share of overnight stays in 2025, providing about 4% of all overnight stays in the first seven months of the year, according to the review of the Serbian Economist with reference to data from Monstat and the National Tourism Organization (NTO).

According to the structure given in the material, the largest share of overnight stays in January-July 2025 was formed by guests from Serbia (22.8%), the Russian Federation (16.7%), followed by tourists from Bosnia and Herzegovina (about 8%) and Turkey (5%), followed by Ukraine (4%).

Serbian Economist also notes that 2025 recorded an increase in the number of trips with a decrease in the length of stay: in the first nine months of 2025, Montenegro was visited by 2.415 million tourists (about +5% compared to the same period in 2024), with more than 8.2 million overnight stays recorded by July (4.3% less year-on-year), and the average length of stay decreased to 5.6 days from 6 days in 2024.

 

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