In January-September of this year, PJSC Industrial and Manufacturing Enterprise Kryvbasvibuhprom increased its net profit by 87.5% compared to the same period last year, from UAH 100.328 million to UAH 188.105 million.
According to the company’s interim report, revenue for this period increased by 24.9% to UAH 1 billion 345.556 million.
Undistributed profit at the end of September 2025 amounted to UAH 747.398 million.
In 2024, the company received a net profit of UAH 153.893 million compared to UAH 95.121 million in 2023.
Kryvbasvibuhprom provides blasting services in the quarries of mining companies in Ukraine. It is a large manufacturer of emulsion and non-water-resistant explosives. The company’s technological chain includes storage, processing, transportation, and blasting operations.
According to the NDU for the second quarter of 2025, Quarex Ltd (Cyprus) owns 93.16% of the company’s shares, and UMG Investments of the SCM Group owns 6.56%.
The authorized capital of Kryvbasvibuhprom is UAH 97.022 million, with a share par value of UAH 1.
Kyivstar, Ukraine’s largest telecommunications operator, reported EBITDA of UAH 7.1 billion in the third quarter of 2025, up 21.5% from the third quarter of 2024, and growth of 20.4% in dollar terms to $171 million.
“Stable high profitability reflects disciplined cost management against the backdrop of revenue growth and the implementation of Kyivstar’s digital strategy,” Kyivstar Group Ltd said in its quarterly report on Monday.
According to the report, total revenue grew by 20.9% to UAH 12.3 billion, and in dollars by 19.8% to $297 million, while mobile ARPU for the year increased by 14.0% to UAH 153.1 ($3.7).
Adjusted net income was $73 million, but this figure does not include non-cash expenses of $162 million recognized in the third quarter of 2025 in connection with Kyivstar’s listing. Without adjustments, the loss for the third quarter of 2025 was $89 million, the report said.
According to the report, direct digital revenues grew to 11.9% of total revenues thanks to a 6.3-fold increase to UAH 1.5 billion ($35 million), which in turn was driven by the consolidation of Uklon.
It is noted that the total number of mobile subscribers for the year decreased by 3.6% to 22.5 million, but the number of 4G customers increased by 2.4% to 15 million.
The report states that the total number of monthly active digital users reached 13.5 million. In particular, Uklon had 3.6 million users in the third quarter of 2025, Helsi had 2.5 million, KyivstarTV had 2.1 million users, and MyKyivstar had 5.2 million. These results were driven by the initial consolidation of Uklon, the continued expansion of Helsi’s digital medical services, and the strong absorption of Kyivstar TV, the report says.
In particular, in the third quarter, Uklon, which was consolidated into Kyivstar’s reporting in April 2025, received revenue of UAH 1.027 million, or $24.4 million. Its EBITDA amounted to UAH 378 million, or $9.1 million. Trips in the third quarter of 2025 increased by 17.2% to 42.2 million, and deliveries increased by 33.3% compared to the same period in 2024 to 1.2 million.
KyivstarTV increased its revenue 2.4 times in the third quarter of 2025, to UAH 140 million. The number of user sessions on KyivstarTV increased by 30.7% in the third quarter of 2025, reaching 670 million, while the number of minutes viewed by active users per day increased by 21.1%, reaching 244 million.
It is noted that the Helsi medical information system increased its revenue by 50% compared to the same period in 2024, to UAH 75 million. The program has more than 38,000 active specialists and doctors, more than 1,600 healthcare facilities, 2.2 million appointments made by patients through the platform, and more than 28 million registered users.
In the third quarter of 2025, big data processing and cloud services generated UAH 222 million in revenue, which is 80.5% more than in the previous year. The report states that the growth was driven by large-scale solutions for big data analytics, advertising technologies (AdTech), cloud productivity and collaboration services, as well as API-based connectivity and data exchange services.
According to the report, Kyivstar continues to develop its large language model (LLM) project in partnership with the Ministry of Digital Transformation and the WINWIN Center of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence. In particular, in the third quarter of 2025, the project strategy was defined and the legal framework for data transfer was established. The release of the first version of the Ukrainian LLM is scheduled for December 2025.
Kyivstar’s growth strategy includes maintaining its leadership in the mobile communications market, Direct to Cell technology, and stable ARPU growth. In the digital sphere, the company’s priorities are to expand its digital offerings, focusing on increasing multi-user services.
As reported, Kyivstar increased its EBITDA by 39.5% to UAH 12.85 billion in the first half of 2025, while its revenue grew by 36.1% to UAH 22.58 billion.
The main shareholder of Kyivstar Group, with an 89.6% stake, is the telecommunications holding company VEON, which was its 100% owner until Kyivstar was listed on the stock exchange in August 2025.
Natalia Gurina, who has been responsible for risk management and problem assets as deputy chair of the board since January 2012, will become the new chair of the board of Raiffeisen Bank (Kyiv), Ukraine’s largest non-state-owned bank, on January 1, 2026.
According to a statement on the bank’s website, the decision was made by the supervisory board of Raiffeisen Bank following a competition, so it still needs to be approved by the state supervisory authorities.
It is noted that Gurina has devoted her entire professional career to the bank and has grown with it since its early years, starting her career at Aval (the bank’s former name) in 1994.
She will replace Oleksandr Pysaruk as chairman of the board, who was approved for this position by the supervisory board in August 2019 and who was first deputy chairman of the NBU in 2014-2016.
“Gurina has demonstrated strong professional and leadership qualities that will ensure the bank’s further development in extremely difficult military conditions,” said Andriy Stepanenko, deputy chairman of the supervisory board, whose words are quoted in the release.
It is noted that Gurina has held positions in various areas over the years, including exchange operations, currency control, treasury, credit operations, portfolio monitoring, and problem loans. Prior to her appointment as a member of the board in July 2007, she was deputy chief risk manager and director of the corporate risk department.
The replacement of the bank’s chairman is planned following the decision of the current chairman, Pysaruk, not to renew his contract for a new term, according to the release.
Raiffeisen Bank is the largest Ukrainian bank with foreign capital. According to the NBU, as of September 1, 2025, it ranked fourth (UAH 239.8 billion) among 60 banks in Ukraine in terms of assets.
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The volume of freight traffic carried by Ukrzaliznytsia in 2025 will decrease by 7% compared to last year, from 173 million tons to 160 million tons, and in subsequent years it will only be possible to increase it to 161 million tons and 162 million tons, respectively, the company announced to journalists during a presentation on November 7.
According to the presentation, it is expected that in 2025-2026, the volume of ore and manganese transportation will amount to 44 million tons compared to 43 million tons last year, and in 2027, it will decrease to 42 million tons.
Grain and flour transportation in 2025-2027 is forecast at 31 million tons, which is 22.5% or 9 million tons less than in 2024.
Ukrzaliznytsia noted that it expects a reduction in the transportation of building materials from 35 million tons in 2024 to 30-32 million tons in 2025-2027.
According to the presentation, coal transportation volumes in 2025-2027 will decrease by 17.4% compared to 2024, from 23 million tons to 19 million tons.
The company plans to partially offset these losses by increasing the transportation of other cargo from 32 million tons last year to 36 million tons this year, and then increasing it by 1 million tons annually.
Ukrzaliznytsia added that the total volume of cargo transportation from 2021 to 2025 decreased by 49% – from 315 million tons to 160 million tons. In particular, during this period, there was a 43% reduction in ore transportation, 52% in building materials, and 62% in coal.
According to the presentation, the forecast for the profitability of freight transportation is even worse: last year’s profit of UAH 20.4 billion will decrease to UAH 3.2 billion next year, and the following year, freight transportation will bring a loss of UAH 0.6 billion, and in 2027 – UAH 4.8 billion.
The company cites the freezing of tariffs, which were last increased in 2022, as the reason, although the producer price index has risen by 69.3% since then.
In September 2025, Valery Tkachov, deputy director of the commercial department of Ukrzaliznytsia, reported that the company expects freight traffic to decline this year to 162-165 million tons from 175 million tons last year, after partially recovering from a drop to 150-155 million tons in the first two years of Russia’s full-scale aggression from 312-315 million tons.
Tkachov then stressed that in order to rectify the situation, an active search for new cargoes is underway, in particular, retail and small and medium-sized business cargoes, ranging from forest products to industrial products and a large number of other segments.
Serhiy Leshchenko, deputy chairman of the supervisory board of Ukrzaliznytsia, reported last week in the Verkhovna Rada that the company’s net loss for the first nine months of this year amounted to UAH 7.195 billion.
According to him, the company proposes to index freight tariffs by 27.5% from January 1 next year and by another 11% from July 1.
The volume of Ukrzaliznytsia’s export shipments in January-June 2025 decreased by 13.5% to 38.7 million tons, domestic shipments by 11.7% to 35.5 million tons, while the volume of import transportation increased by 5.4% to 5.3 million tons.
In 2024, the company increased its revenue by 11.1% to UAH 102.87 billion, but incurred a net loss of UAH 2.71 billion compared to a net profit of UAH 5.04 billion in 2023.
Ukraine ranked 25th out of 25 in the 2025 European used car market transparency index from carVertical. According to the study, 54.72% of the cars inspected had registered damage, 9.46% had signs of odometer tampering, 78.38% were imported used cars, and the average age was 10.58 years.
The leaders in the ranking are the United Kingdom, Italy, and Germany. In these countries, the risks of mileage manipulation and hidden damage are significantly lower than the European average, according to the authors of the study.
The carVertical index is based on six criteria and covers the period from October 2024 to September 2025.
The methodology and country cards are available on the research project website.
