Ukrainians are generally neutral towards Tunisia, according to the results of a study conducted by Active Group in collaboration with Experts Club.
According to the survey, 16% of respondents have a positive opinion of the country (12.3% – mostly positive, 3.7% – completely positive). Four percent of respondents expressed a negative opinion (2.3% – mostly negative, 1.7% – completely negative). At the same time, the majority of Ukrainians chose a neutral position – 72.3%, while another 7.7% said they knew little about this country.
At the end of 2024, trade turnover between Ukraine and Tunisia amounted to $153.9 million, of which Ukrainian exports amounted to $133.4 million and imports to $20.5 million. The positive balance was $112.9 million.
“Ukraine has fairly stable economic relations with Tunisia. The significant positive trade balance shows that Ukrainian goods, in particular agricultural products and metals, are in demand in the North African market. At the same time, due to geographical distance and weak information links, Ukrainians’ attitude towards Tunisia is mostly neutral,” said Experts Club founder Maksim Urakin.
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As part of Rinat Akhmetov’s Steel Front military initiative, Metinvest Group donated light equipment – buggies and five motorcycles worth a total of around UAH 2 million – to soldiers of the 15th Special Forces Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine, Kara-Dag, according to a press release on Monday.
“The enemy is increasingly using FPV drones, which makes the use of heavy armored vehicles extremely difficult. Buggies, on the other hand, are fast, inconspicuous, and allow combat missions to be carried out effectively. We are additionally equipping them with protection, and they are used to deliver personnel, ammunition, support drone pilots, and perform other tasks,” said Deputy Brigade Commander Oleksandr Ryasny.
According to him, this type of transport is currently becoming increasingly in demand on the front lines.
In addition to buggies, the National Guard also received motorcycles, which will help them move even faster on the front line.
“Motorcycles are what is particularly needed now for rapid movement and covert operations on the battlefield. They allow us to deliver provisions, ammunition, and personnel in the shortest possible time,” said Deputy Brigade Commander Yevstakhiy Mospan.
Since the start of the full-scale invasion within the Steel Front, the company has provided more than UAH 5 billion in assistance to the army.
According to the results of a study conducted by Active Group and Experts Club in August 2025, Ukrainians rated the role of European Union countries in promoting peace in Ukraine the highest.
According to the survey, 42.0% of respondents believe that the EU (primarily France and Germany) is making the greatest contribution to the peace process. 25.8% of respondents noted the key role of the United States, and 12.8% noted the key role of the United Kingdom. At the same time, 11.7% of Ukrainians believe that no country is contributing to the establishment of peace, while 5.8% were unable to decide on an answer. Significantly fewer respondents noted other countries: China — 1.3%, India — 0.5%, Brazil — 0.2%.
“The results show that Ukrainians rate the diplomatic and political efforts of the EU and the US highest. Together with the UK, these countries form the main international triangle of trust for Ukrainian society,” said Active Group Director Oleksandr Pozniy.
Maksim Urakin, co-founder of Experts Club, emphasized the economic dimension of the partnership.
“For our country, it is important not only to have a political partnership with the EU, the US, and the UK, but also an economic one. China, on the other hand, despite its leadership in trade with Ukraine, remains on the periphery of the peace process,” he said.
The survey was part of a large-scale project by Active Group and Experts Club to study Ukraine’s international image and foreign policy orientations.
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The vast majority of Ukrainians have a neutral attitude toward Mexico, although positive assessments significantly outweigh negative ones. This is evidenced by the results of a study conducted by Active Group in collaboration with Experts Club.
According to the survey, 19.7% of respondents have a positive opinion of Mexico (15.3% — mostly positive, 4.3% — completely positive). A negative attitude is held by 10% of respondents (9% — mostly negative, 1% — completely negative). At the same time, the majority of Ukrainians — 67% — take a neutral position, while another 3.3% admitted that they are not familiar with the country.
At the end of the first half of 2025, trade turnover between Ukraine and Mexico amounted to $169.1 million, of which exports from Ukraine amounted to $28.9 million and imports from Mexico amounted to $140.1 million. The negative balance amounted to $111.2 million.
“The high level of neutrality towards Mexico is explained by the country’s remoteness and limited direct contacts. At the same time, trade between Ukraine and Mexico is showing some momentum, although the structure of relations is currently unbalanced — Ukrainian exports are significantly lower than imports,” said Experts Club founder Maksim Urakin.
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R1 Technologies LLC, operating in the market of IT solutions in the insurance sector, has joined the League of Insurance Organizations of Ukraine, reports LSOU on Facebook.
Among the company’s key products is an online platform. Crimea moreover, it provides comprehensive tools for the sale and administration of insurance products, ensures compliance with the requirements of the regulator and increases the efficiency of insurance companies and intermediaries.
“We are convinced that cooperation with the League will contribute to the development of innovative solutions, increase transparency and competitiveness of the insurance market of Ukraine”, – said Igor Nesterov, Director of R1 Technologies.
Agrotrade, an agricultural holding company whose land bank is concentrated in the Kharkiv, Sumy, Chernihiv, and Poltava regions, has noted lower efficiency in frontline areas and would like to strengthen its business model through relocation.
“We want to grow. We want to strengthen our business model by relocating our land bank and forming land clusters in safer regions,” said Agrotrade CEO Serhiy Nechyporuk at the Agro Finance 2025 Conference, recently held by Oschadbank.
“We tell the banks: give us funds, we will relocate our land bank, create a successful cluster, for example, in Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, Khmelnytskyi, and we will be more resilient. And bankers tell us: well, let’s finance it with your own funds, and then we’ll think about how we can refinance you,” he described the discussion with banks.
According to Nechyporuk, bankers are ignoring the sound business logic of the agricultural holding, which has strong agronomic and agrotechnological expertise that it can scale up, but at the same time they are refusing to increase financing limits due to the need for greater loan reserves for a company operating in frontline regions.
Currently, according to him, some of the company’s land is located 10 km from the line of combat.
“It is difficult to be effective when there are constantly REBs working in the fields: we have now adopted a precision farming strategy (using drones) and, unfortunately, we cannot implement it on two clusters (out of the company’s five clusters),” Nechyporuk gave an example.
He added that the company also has “agronomic combat” bonuses for agronomists who go out to certain fields that are considered risky.
According to the CEO of Agrotrade, if we do not focus on supporting the frontline regions now, a “wild economic frontline field” will soon appear there.
Nechyporuk also noted a decline in the trend toward processing products due to a shortage of raw materials, which arose against the backdrop of a reduction in Ukraine’s agricultural land bank from 25 million hectares to 20 million hectares due to Russia’s full-scale aggression.
“There used to be a very strong trend towards processing agricultural products, but unfortunately, it has now declined. We probably invested a lot in it, but now there is not as much raw material because we are losing our land,” he said.
The Agrotrade Group of Companies is a vertically integrated holding company covering the entire agro-industrial cycle (production, processing, storage, and trade in agricultural products). It cultivates over 70,000 hectares of land. Its main crops are sunflower, corn, winter wheat, soybeans, and rapeseed. It has its own network of elevators with a one-time storage capacity of 570,000 tons.
The group also produces hybrid seeds of corn, sunflower, barley, and winter wheat. In 2014, a seed plant with a capacity of 20,000 tons of seeds per year was built on the basis of the Kolos seed farm (Kharkiv region).
The founder of Agrotrade is Vsevolod Kozhemyako.
