A petition is currently being circulated in Kyiv calling on authorities to prevent the closure of the Family Medicine Center located at 14-B Sribnokilska Street in the Poznyaki neighborhood.
Petition No. 14210 has been registered on the Kyiv City Council website. Its authors are asking city officials to keep the clinic open and ensure the continued operation of the medical facility at this address.
At the time of writing, the petition had gathered 2,700 signatures out of the required 6,000. Another 3,300 signatures are needed for the petition to be considered.
You can support the petition at the following link: https://petition.kyivcity.gov.ua/petition/?pid=14210
For residents of Poznyaky, this center is a vital primary care facility. According to local media, the clinic serves approximately 15,000 patients. This includes, in particular, children, the elderly, and residents with limited mobility, for whom access to medical care close to home is of particular importance.
Supporting the petition is important because closing or repurposing the clinic could make it harder to see family doctors, increase the burden on other healthcare facilities in the Darnytskyi district, and create additional difficulties for patients who regularly seek primary care.
The authors of the petition also urge that no decision regarding the future of the facility be made without open discussion with the community and without a clear alternative for district residents.
“Nova Poshta,” Ukraine’s leading express delivery service, has about 2,000 open positions, including 1,000 branch operators, 600 installers, 300 couriers and drivers, and another 100 in the support office, according to Anna-Maria Sabov, the company’s HR director.
“If we gain an additional platform as another recruitment channel, especially given that it will allow us to select candidates not only based on resumes but also on skills… I am confident that we will speed up the time it takes to fill vacancies,“ Sabov noted during the presentation of the launch of the first phase of the ”Obriy” digital labor market ecosystem in Kyiv earlier this week.
According to Nova Poshta’s management report, the total number of its employees in 2025 was 33,640, compared to 34,110 the previous year, while the average number of employees in 2025 was 27,570.
According to the director, the company’s current total time from the actual search to a trained candidate is about 30–35 calendar days, which includes a training phase lasting from three days to two weeks. Excluding this phase, the process would take 15–20 days.
“That’s a decent pace, but I want us to be even more productive,” Sabov emphasized.
She added that “Obriy” would provide additional value to employers if it allowed for the automation of paperwork when hiring employees, as this still requires a significant amount of time and resources.
The HR Director clarified that, overall, the recruitment department at Nova Poshta fills more than 1,000 vacancies each month, with 55 recruiters working to recruit employees for operational positions in the regions. According to her, the company plans to ensure staffing levels of about 95% during the summer to prepare for the seasonal increase in workload in September.
Sabov also reported that the company is launching a project to attract young specialists who will work on the architecture and modeling of Nova Poshta’s logistics. According to her, the company aims to make shipping cheaper and faster without compromising reliability and quality. To find such specialists, Nova Poshta plans to announce a separate campaign targeting a young audience in the near future.
“We will announce a major campaign to find such people. We want to start with five people first, so if “Obriy” can also provide, for example, a graduate’s GPA and their participation in extracurricular activities, such as academic competitions, this would be very valuable to us at “Nova Poshta” because we want to work with young people,” the director noted.
As reported, the Ministry of Economy, Environment, and Agriculture of Ukraine, in collaboration with the Ministry of Digital Transformation, has launched a closed registration for beta testing of the first tools of the new digital labor market ecosystem “Obriy,” the development and integration of which is estimated at $5–10 million for the current and next years.
The “Obriy” system will integrate information from existing job portals such as Work.ua, Robota.ua, Jooble, and others.
During the beta testing phase, “Diya” is launching its first two services: grants for professional training (reskilling and certification) of up to 15,000 UAH, as well as the option to remotely terminate employment contracts for individuals who remain formally employed in temporarily occupied territories (TOT). The launch of services for all citizens on the “Dii” platform is scheduled for July 2026.
The main activity of “Nova Poshta” is express delivery of documents, parcels, and palletized oversized cargo. Its ultimate beneficial owners are Volodymyr Poperechnyuk and Vyacheslav Klimov.
Oschadbank has increased the loan portfolio of the MHP Group by 500 million hryvnias by providing a revolving credit line to replenish working capital, the bank’s press service reported.
The new financing marks the latest stage in the strategic partnership between Oschadbank and MHP, which has been ongoing since 2022. Taking into account the expanded limit under the general credit agreement between the bank and the MHP Group, the total amount of financing provided exceeds UAH 2.66 billion.
According to Oschadbank, the new credit line will help the company flexibly finance its current operations, maintain production cycles, fulfill obligations to partners, and strengthen the export potential of Ukraine’s agro-industrial complex.
“MHP is one of Oschadbank’s key clients, a leader in the Ukrainian agro-industrial complex, and a company with high-quality financial reporting and stable operations. For companies demonstrating such a high level of financial management as the MHP Group, Oschadbank is ready to offer not only large credit lines but also flexible financing instruments without collateral,” noted Serhiy Chernikov, Director of Oschadbank’s Corporate Business Department.
He added that for a state-owned bank, the decision to provide unsecured financing is based on in-depth analysis of the borrower and a detailed assessment of potential credit risk.
Nadiya Zherebnyuk, Director of the Corporate Finance and Treasury Department at MHP, noted that Oschadbank is a key financial partner of the group, and the expansion of cooperation through unsecured financing instruments has become a new stage in strengthening MHP’s financial stability.
Oschadbank systematically supports large Ukrainian businesses, the agro-industrial complex, and exporters, which provide foreign currency inflows, jobs, tax revenues, and stability to Ukraine’s economy.
Oschadbank is one of Ukraine’s largest state-owned banks. According to the National Bank of Ukraine, as of May 1, 2026, the bank’s assets exceeded UAH 510 billion, with capital amounting to approximately UAH 44.7 billion. The bank serves individuals, small and medium-sized businesses, corporate clients, and the public sector.
MHP is an international food and agrotechnology company with production assets in Ukraine and Europe. The company is expanding its export operations and supplies products to over 70 countries worldwide. In 2019, Perutnina Ptuj—one of the leading producers of chicken and meat products in Southeast Europe—joined the MHP Group.
“ORION.GROUP,” a manufacturer of stainless steel equipment and containers (Kyiv Oblast), has launched a mobile production complex that is unique in Ukraine. It allows for the bending, welding, and grinding of metal structures outside the factory—on the customer’s premises. The mobile production complex is used to manufacture and assemble tanks with a diameter of over 5 meters, the transportation of which in assembled form is difficult, expensive, or impossible. The investment in this project amounts to 35 million UAH.
This was announced by Dmytro Kysilevsky, Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Economic Development.
“ORION.GROUP” products for farmers and the food industry are sold with a 25% cost reimbursement to buyers from the state. This program is part of the “Made in Ukraine” policy for the development of Ukrainian manufacturers.
Currently, the ORION.GROUP mobile production complex is being used in the construction of a bioethanol plant in the Ternopil region. After that, the plan is to use this equipment to build an agricultural processing complex in an industrial park in the Khmelnytskyi region.
“ORION.GROUP” manufactures stainless steel tanks for the beer, juice, dairy, bioethanol, confectionery, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries. In addition to Ukraine, the company has built plants and production lines in 65 countries worldwide. In 2011–2013, “ORION.GROUP” was engaged by the French consortium NOVARKA to construct the confinement (arch) over the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
In 2025, the company’s sales volume amounted to 440 million UAH. During this period, the company paid 97 million UAH in taxes. The company employs 127 people.
INVESTMENTS, Kysilevsky, machine building, ORION.GROUP, STAINLESS STEEL
The Silpo chain, in partnership with PrivatBank and Mastercard, has expanded the Tap to Phone technology across its entire delivery coverage area.
Tap to Phone operates through the “Terminal” app and simplifies the payment process upon order pickup—for both customers and couriers.
Thanks to this technology, the courier’s smartphone functions as a payment terminal, so customers simply need to tap their bank card or another NFC-enabled device against it to pay.
The integration of the “Terminal” app into the network began gradually in June 2025, and by May 2026, with Mastercard’s support, the technology had expanded to cover the entire Silpo delivery area.
To date, over 500,000 customers have already taken advantage of Tap to Phone.
In particular, teams from Silpo, PrivatBank, and Mastercard decided to test the “Terminal” app in real-world conditions and became delivery drivers for a day. Throughout the day, they delivered orders to customers and accepted cashless payments using the technology.
The digital bank monobank has eliminated fees for all incoming and outgoing international SWIFT payments for individual and business customers, according to the project’s co-founder, Oleg Gorokhovsky.
“Previously, a SWIFT transfer cost users an average of about 1,000 UAH in fees,” he wrote on his Telegram channel on Wednesday.
According to Gorokhovsky, such payments are currently important for businesses due to the possibility of cheaper procurement, and for individuals—to pay for education, medical treatment, and military equipment.
He added that the bank earned over 11 million UAH per year from these fees.
monobank is a branchless mobile bank founded in January 2017 by former PrivatBank top managers Oleg Gorokhovsky, Dmytro Dubilet, and Mykhailo Rogalsky. The project operates under the banking license of Universal Bank, which is part of the TAS Group (Kyiv).
According to the National Bank, as of April 1, 2026, Universal Bank had issued a total of 29.42 million cards, of which 10.17 million were used for transactions during the month.
