In 2025, the State Fisheries Agency’s water management organizations provided farmers with a full range of services for supplying water for irrigation in the Zaporizhzhia, Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, and Odesa regions, with the total area of irrigated land exceeding 40,500 hectares, according to its press service on Telegram.
It is specified that to achieve this result, the pumping stations of state irrigation systems supplied 130.8 million cubic meters of water and used about 51.5 million kWh of electricity.
According to the State Fisheries Agency, the largest irrigation areas in 2025 were serviced by the Kiliya Interdistrict Water Management Administration (MUVG), where 78.5 million cubic meters of water were supplied to nearly 10,000 hectares of agricultural land, The Dniester MWH supplied 24.3 million cubic meters of water to irrigate 8,600 hectares of fields, and the Izmail WMD irrigated 8,300 hectares of fields, the agency specifies.
Various irrigation methods were used for maximum efficiency: sprinklers, drip irrigation, and flooding. Thanks to this, in addition to traditional cereals and legumes, vegetables, and fruits, farmers grew the “white gold” of the south—cotton, which began to be cultivated in Ukraine last year, the agency said.
Employees of the State Fisheries Agency’s water management departments have already begun preparing water management and reclamation facilities for the winter period and the 2026 irrigation season.
Bitcoin rose above $90,000 on Monday amid improved risk appetite, but has since corrected. According to CoinDesk, the price reached approximately $90,300 at the height of the session, after which profit-taking began. BTC is currently trading at around $87,300 per coin.
Recall that the autumn crash was exacerbated by the forced closure of shorts worth nearly $19 billion, and the cryptocurrency market as a whole has not yet recovered these losses. The autumn-winter “Santa Claus rally,” which pushed the S&P 500 index to new highs, had virtually no impact on crypto assets, but investor sentiment is gradually improving.
Source: https://www.fixygen.ua/news/20251229/bitkoyn-podolav-riven-90-tisyach-vpershe-za-dva-tizhni.html
In Ukraine on Tuesday, December 30, a light snow is expected (in places during the day), only at night in most southern regions without precipitation, the roads are icy, reports Ukrhydrometcenter. The wind is westerly, 7-12 m/s, in the afternoon in the western, Zhytomyr and Vinnitsa regions gusts of 15-20 m/s. The temperature at night is 1-6° frost, in the north-east of the country up to 9° frost; during the day from 4° frost to 1° warm, in the extreme south of the country 2-4° warm.
In Kiev on December 30, light snow (in places in the afternoon), icy roads, westerly wind, 7-12 m/s. Temperatures will be 4-6° frost at night and 1-3° frost during the day. According to the Central Geophysical Observatory named after Boris Sreznevsky. Borys Sreznevsky, in Kiev on December 30, the highest daytime temperature was 10.5 in 2023, the lowest nighttime temperature was -26.3 in 1895.
On the last day of 2025, December 31, in Ukraine, except for the south and southeast, light snow. On the roads in some places icy. The wind is predominantly north-western, 7-12 m/s, in western regions gusts of 15-20 m/s. Temperature at night 4-9° frost, in the east, north-east of the country and in the Carpathians up to 13° frost, during the day 2-7° frost; in the south of the country at night 1-6° frost, during the day about 0°.
Weather forecast for Kiev on December 31 – light snow, wind mainly north-west, 7-12 m/s. The temperature will be 6-8° frost at night and 4-6° frost during the day.
The crypto market for the week of December 22-28, 2025 spent most of the time in low holiday liquidity and limited fluctuations. At the end of the week, bitcoin was down about 0.7% (closing at around $87.8k on December 28), while ether was down about 1.9% (to around $2.95k).
The year-end factor remained the key backdrop for the week, with a thinner market amplifying the impact of individual flows and derivatives. In the focus of participants’ attention was the large expiration of options on Deribit on December 26, which the market discussed as a possible trigger of short-term volatility after the “realignment” of positions.
In the segment of altcoins the picture was heterogeneous. Among the largest assets by capitalization, as of December 28, Zcash showed a noticeable growth over 7 days (about +20%), Bitcoin Cash added about +5%, Avalanche – about +4%, while Dogecoin declined by about -5.5% over the same period, which reflected point rotation within the market.
The “sideways plus risk of sharp spikes on thin liquidity” scenario was broadly in line with Fixygen’s assessment, which had previously indicated an increased likelihood of disproportionate movements during the holidays and dependence on news background and flows.
https://www.fixygen.ua/news/20251229/oglyad-rinku-kriptovalyut-za-tizhden-vid-fixygen.html
The Greek authorities plan to pass a law in January 2026 reforming the Golden Visa program for investors in order to speed up the processing of applications and eliminate the problem of “backdating” the validity period of residence cards.
The key change concerns the calculation of the five-year validity period of the residence permit: currently, it is often counted from the date of application, which means that due to lengthy processing of documents, the actual validity period of the card obtained is less than five years. It is proposed to start counting from the date of issue of the card so that holders receive the full five-year period from the date of actual receipt of the document.
The reform is also aimed at reducing the administrative burden – it is planned to simplify the procedures for extending permits and reuniting families by reducing the number of stages of consideration.
According to IMI Daily, the number of pending applications under the program exceeded 49,000 in July, although the pace of processing applications has accelerated significantly in 2025. The Golden Visa program provides investors with a renewable residence permit, and in 2024-2025, Greece has already changed the parameters of the program, including real estate investment thresholds and transitional conditions.
Source: http://relocation.com.ua/greece-changes-rules-for-obtaining-golden-visas-from-january/
Espresso in Ukraine has become more expensive again: in 2025, a cup of coffee cost an average of 41 hryvnia, which is 17% more than a year ago, according to the results of the Espresso Index study by Poster POS, conducted for the OpenDataBot service.
According to the study, the price of espresso in Ukraine has doubled since the start of the full-scale war, when a cup cost 21 hryvnia.
As of the end of December, the most expensive coffee in Ukraine is drunk in Lviv — 47 hryvnia per cup, Odessa — 45 hryvnia per cup, and Dnipro — 43 hryvnia per cup.
For the third year in a row, the cheapest coffee is in Khmelnytskyi — 33 UAH/cup, and it is also affordable in Zaporizhzhia and Kropyvnytskyi — 35 UAH/cup.
Over the course of the year, it has risen in price the most in the frontline Sumy region — by 26%. Last year, Sumy region was among the regions with the cheapest coffee.
There is currently no data available for the Ukrainian Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Luhansk region.
The Espresso Index is an economic indicator used to measure the cost of a standard serving of espresso in different cities around the world. It can be useful for comparing price levels and the cost of living in different places. This indicator helps to assess the difference in prices for the same goods and services in different countries and reflects purchasing power and inflation, according to Poster POS.
Ukrainian restaurant automation company Poster POS is a Ukrainian restaurant automation company that develops accounting software for the HoReCa system, which is installed on tablets. More than 50,000 establishments use the developer’s services.
