Foxtrot, a Ukrainian retailer of household appliances and electronics, opened five new stores and renovated five existing stores in 2025, the company announced on its website.
“During 2025, Foxtrot opened five new stores in Chaban, Brovary, Odesa, Kryvyi Rih, and Kharkiv. At the same time, the company renovated five more retail outlets: in Uzhhorod, Lviv, Khust, Myrhorod, and Kalush,” the statement said.
In addition, the retailer’s online business also grew last year. According to its data, traffic to the online store increased by 46% over the year, and turnover by 76%. Visitor traffic and turnover through the mobile app tripled, the company said.
According to Foxtrot, the number of active customers increased by 11% last year, the frequency of purchases by 3%, and customer retention by 12%. Overall, the company increased its customer base by almost 9% over the year, to 15.1 million.
At the end of 2025, the company had 3,226 employees.
According to the retailer, during 2025, Foxtrot transferred equipment and other resources worth more than UAH 10.2 million to military units, and the total amount of aid since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation reached UAH 52.7 million.
Foxtrot is one of Ukraine’s largest omnichannel retail chains in terms of the number of stores and sales of electronics and household appliances. As of early 2026, the company operates 127 stores in 67 cities, the Foxtrot.ua online platform, and the mobile app of the same name.
According to Opendatabot, the revenue of FTD-Retail LLC (Kyiv), which develops the chain, increased by 17.6% in 2024 compared to 2023, reaching UAH 14 billion 882.632 million, but its net profit was lower: UAH 6 million 721 thousand against UAH 314 million 436 thousand, respectively.
In the first nine months of 2025, the company received UAH 12.1 billion in revenue and UAH 167.4 million in net losses.
The founders of the omnichannel retailer Foxtrot are Ukrainian businessmen Gennady Vykhodtsev and Valery Makovetsky.
Agro-Region agricultural holding has completed its 2025 harvest campaign with a record corn yield of 9.64 tons per hectare, according to a Facebook post by the holding’s press service.
Agro-Region stated that the yield indicators for the 2025 season exceeded the planned forecasts. One of the production units, AR Bozna, broke its own yield record and the record of other units, achieving a yield of 11.87 tons/ha.
Yuriy Lysak, chief agronomist of Agro-Region, recalled that 2025 was marked by cool weather conditions: spring started late, and all crops, especially corn, did not receive the necessary amount of heat. That is why the harvest started with a delay of almost two weeks. Despite the increased moisture content of corn, which affected the productivity of elevators, the harvest results, according to the expert, were “truly impressive.”
“Thanks to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as the coordinated work of the agronomic, engineering, and elevator teams, we were able to achieve high results,” Lysak summed up.
Agro-Region agricultural holding owns a land bank of 39,000 hectares in the Kyiv, Chernihiv, Zhytomyr, and Khmelnytskyi regions. It specializes in crop production. It consists of 11 companies, which are united into four crop clusters. It has two elevators: Boryspil with a capacity of 73,000 tons and Myropil with a capacity of 52,000 tons.
Agro-Region’s annual harvest of grain and oilseeds is 200,000 tons.
In April 2021, the Swedish company Lobiu Sala AB, owned by former Ukrainian Economy Minister Aivaras Abromavičius, received permission from the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine to purchase the Swedish company Agro Region Stockholm Holding, which manages the Agro-Region group of companies in Ukraine.
Ukrainian cities received 107 trolleybuses in 2025, 75 of which were new, compared to 34 trolleybuses (28 new) in 2024, according to AllTransUA.
“2025 was the year of recovery for the trolleybus market in Ukraine, and although the figures are still lower than deliveries from 2014 to 2021, Ukrainian cities received 107 trolleybuses, which is a record during the full-scale war with Russia. The lion’s share is made up of new trolleybuses (75 units), most of which (66 units) were purchased in cooperation with international financial organizations (IFOs). In 2024, many agreements were signed, which began to be implemented in 2025,” the website said.
In general, according to AllTransUA’s data, last year, Khmelnytskyi (30 units) and Mykolaiv (24 units) received the most new trolleybuses funded by IFOs. Eight trolleybuses were also delivered to Kremenchuk and four to Ivano-Frankivsk.
According to experts, in 2025, the market for new trolleybuses was dominated almost equally by Etalon (manufacturer – Chernihiv Automobile Plant) and PTS (Politechnoservice), covering 91% of the market, while the rest of the supply was covered by Lviv-based Electron (5%) and the Litan trading house (Dnipro brand, 4%), which manufactured trolleybuses for the first time in several years.
In particular, Electron began deliveries to Ivano-Frankivsk, and Litan manufactured trolleybuses for Mykolaiv in Belarusian MAZ bodies, completing the delivery of a batch that was interrupted by the start of a full-scale invasion.
“The question of the origin of the bodies remains open: it is unknown whether they arrived in Ukraine before 2022 or were obtained later through indirect channels,” the report states.
Only Chernihiv (three Etalon T121 Barvinok trolleybuses) and Chernivtsi (six PTS T123 trolleybuses) received new trolleybuses at public expense.
The main recipient of used trolleybuses was Kharkiv, which received 26 Škoda trolleybuses of various models. Rivne purchased four Solaris Trollio trolleybuses from Lublin, and Ivano-Frankivsk received the last Gräf & Stift from Austria.
The city of Dnipro also replaced one YMZ T1 trolleybus body with an unused body from the 1990s (there are three such vehicles in the city in total).
“In 2026, we expect continued revenue under existing agreements within the framework of cooperation with IFIs, both as the completion of deliveries already underway (in particular, Ivano-Frankivsk, Kremenchuk) and deliveries to other cities, in particular Lutsk, Ternopil, and Chernivtsi,” the report says.
According to AllTransUA, in 2024, the market received the smallest number of trolleybuses since 2009, and compared to 2023, deliveries fell by a third.
In pre-war 2021, Ukrainian cities purchased 170 trolleybuses, and in 2020, 337.
The Greenville group of companies commissioned 15,400 square meters of housing in Lviv in 2025 and continues to implement two projects in the capital, its press service told the Interfax-Ukraine news agency.
“In 2025, we have virtually completed the Greenville Park Lviv residential complex in Lviv. A total of 15,435.6 square meters (276 apartments) were built during the year. In November 2025, the final building of the complex was commissioned, so now all residential buildings of Greenville Park Lviv have been fully completed. Final work is currently underway on the construction of a parking lot, which is the final stage of the project,” said Yulia Bilen, head of the Greenville sales department in Lviv.
According to her, the aspect of inclusiveness was incorporated into the Greenville Park Lviv project even before the full-scale war, in particular, barrier-free entrances, convenient layouts, and accessible common areas were provided for. However, important changes were made during construction.
“Yes, with the first blackouts, we quickly adjusted the technical solutions. In particular, we provided a backup power supply in the tallest 20-story building. The building was equipped with a generator that guarantees the operation of elevators and common areas during power outages,” Bilen explains.
As for the company’s projects in the capital, multi-level underground parking lots are being built in the stylobate part of the Greenville Park and Greenville business-class residential complexes in Pechersk, as well as shelters and generators. Measures for inclusivity are provided for in the DBN “Inclusivity of Buildings and Structures”: ramps, signs with Braille inscriptions, voice guidance in elevators, etc. There is also a system that brings the elevator car to the nearest floor, which prevents it from getting stuck during emergency power outages.
“We try to adhere to the ‘8/80’ principle: when the territory of a residential complex is equally comfortable for an 8-year-old child and an 80-year-old pensioner. Such an environment includes wide pedestrian areas, ramps, elevators with wide entrances, navigation, voice guidance, lighting, etc.,” explained Natalia Dubik, head of Greenville’s Kyiv projects.
Greenville is a vertically integrated group of companies that has been operating in the field of renewable energy and residential and commercial real estate for over 20 years. According to the LUN new construction portal, the company is engaged in development activities in Kyiv and Lviv. Since 2010, 45 buildings have been commissioned, and 6 buildings are under construction.
Social influencers and content creators on subscription platforms, including OnlyFans, are increasingly applying for O-1B visas in the US for people with outstanding achievements in the arts, the Financial Times reported.
As noted in the publication, in such cases, lawyers use digital metrics — audience, reach, revenue, and commercial collaborations — as one way to confirm the applicant’s “notoriety” and professional success; a niche of lawyers specializing in such applications has also formed in the market.
This is not a “new visa for models,” but rather the existing O-1 (extraordinary ability/achievement) category, often referred to in the public sphere as the “talent visa.” The formal requirements for it are established by USCIS rules and federal regulations and do not include a separate criterion for the number of subscribers — the applicant must prove outstanding abilities or achievements through the prescribed sets of evidence.
According to US State Department statistics, in fiscal year 2024, consulates issued 19,457 O-1 visas, 13,922 O-2 visas (accompanying professionals), and 6,035 O-3 visas (family members).
In 2025, the Zaporizhstal metallurgical plant in Zaporizhia increased its rolled steel production by 15.2% compared to the previous year, from 2 million 426.7 thousand tons to 2 million 794.6 thousand tons.
According to the plant’s press release on Monday, steel production for the year amounted to 3 million 212.2 thousand tons (in 2024 – 2 million 890.8 thousand tons), pig iron – 3 million 567.8 thousand tons (3 million 106.3 thousand tons).
In December, Zaporizhstal produced 314,000 tons of pig iron and 278,500 tons of steel. It shipped 251,400 tons of rolled products, compared to 309,100 tons of pig iron, 273,200 tons of steel, and 251,300 tons of rolled products in the previous month.
Acting CEO of Zaporizhstal Taras Shevchenko stated that even in the most difficult conditions of wartime, metallurgy remains the foundation that supports the country’s economy and stability.
“Despite shelling, power outages, and logistical challenges, Zaporizhstal and other Metinvest enterprises in Zaporizhia are not just maintaining their operations – they are adapting, increasing their efficiency, and continuing to export Ukrainian products, providing foreign currency and tax revenues to the country’s budget and supporting the Ukrainian army. After all, we understand that preserving budget-generating enterprises today is the key to Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction in the future,” the CEO noted.
As reported, in 2024, Zaporizhstal increased its rolled steel output by 18.1% compared to 2023, from 2 million 54.7 thousand tons to 2 million 426.7 thousand tons, steel by 17.2%, to 2 million 890.8 thousand tons, and pig iron by 14.2%, to 3 million 106.3 thousand tons.
In 2023, Zaporizhstal increased its rolled steel production by 57.2% compared to 2022, to 2 million 54.7 thousand tons, steel by 65.4%, to 2 million 466.9 thousand tons, and pig iron by 35.3%, to 2 million 718.9 thousand tons.
Zaporizhstal is one of Ukraine’s largest industrial enterprises, whose products are in high demand among consumers both in the domestic market and in many countries around the world.
Zaporizhstal is a joint venture of the Metinvest Group, whose main shareholders are System Capital Management (71.24%) and Smart Steel Limited (23.76%). Metinvest Holding LLC is the managing company of the Metinvest Group.
