On May 22, at 6 p.m., the Lavra Gallery will host the opening of the art project “Tribute to Fashion.” The author of the project is a young Kyiv artist, Dana Ozova, a fashion artist who subtly and exquisitely combines fashion and personal emotions in her paintings.
The exhibition “Tribute to Fashion” is a visual monologue about the presence of feelings in space.
It is an exquisite performance about states and moods in colors and silhouettes. Architecture, chandelier light, fashion, and images are immersed in an atmosphere where the line between memory and reality is blurred. Interiors, the glare of spotlights, bodies, and light and shadow are scenes not of events, but of states.
At the intersection of fashion, painting, and theater, the artist’s paintings give birth to special stories — intimate, dramatic, seductive, in which each image is a moment between words and silence. Everything here is a gesture, a pause, a touch.
The combination of large-scale paintings and sophisticated fashion sketches in the exhibition creates a certain rhythm, a silent music of the soul that stays with us as a memory, an impression, an emotion. Emotion is the main artistic image of the project. It is the basis of inspiration and beauty, fashion, painting, music, and architecture.
Each canvas is a frame frozen in time.
Painting in which sensations emerge through texture, semi-gestures, and the silence after movement.
This scene is not for the viewer, but for those who know how to see.
Dana Ozo’s works exist on the border between fashion, theater, and painting — in those areas of perception where sophistication becomes emotion and the image becomes meditation.
The chairman of the supervisory board of SK Veles (Odessa), Suren Sardaryan (who owns 56.249% of the insurer’s shares), and member of the supervisory board Karini Sardaryan (42.918%) have submitted their resignations. This was reported in the company’s information posted on the NSSMC information system. It is also specified that they held these positions from April 28, 2023, to May 16, 2025, and are currently vacant.
As reported, on May 5, 2025, the National Bank of Ukraine imposed sanctions on Veles Insurance Company (Odessa) for submitting its 2024 financial statements to the NBU after the deadline.
Veles Insurance Company has been operating in the market since 1998. It has 15 licenses for voluntary and compulsory types of insurance. It is a member of the Insurance Business Association. Its authorized capital is UAH 39 million.
member of the supervisory board, NATIONAL BANK OF UKRAINE, Veles Insurance Company
Nine companies from the top ten made a profit last year.
According to the OpenDataBot 2025 Index, the total income of the leading construction companies amounted to UAH 49.49 billion. This is 41% more than in 2023. The top three leaders have remained almost unchanged for three years in a row. Nine companies from the top ten managed to make a profit last year. Half of the top companies are engaged in the construction of roads and highways.
The top ten construction companies in the OpenDataBot Index 2025 earned over UAH 49 billion in revenue. This is 41% more than in 2023. The combined profit of the leaders grew 1.6 times to UAH 3.09 billion.
The lion’s share of the top companies’ revenue comes from five companies specializing in road construction: 75% or UAH 36.9 billion.
Four other companies are engaged in the construction of residential and non-residential buildings, with a more modest contribution of 20% of revenue. One company in the ranking operates in the narrow field of exploratory drilling.
For the third year in a row, the top three leaders in the Construction Industry Index have remained virtually unchanged. The absolute leader is Avtomagistral-Pivden from Odesa, owned by Oleksandr Boiko. In 2024, the company earned UAH 13.2 billion (27% of the total revenue of the top companies), which is 1.6 times higher than in 2023. Profit reached a record 1.36 billion UAH.
In second place is Vinnytsia-based Avtostrada, owned by Maksym Shkil. The company earned 10.8 billion UAH (+30%) and increased its profit 1.6 times to 74.6 million UAH.
The company notes that Avtostrada is one of the ten largest donors to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, having transferred more than UAH 2.1 billion since the start of the full-scale war. The company is actively involved in the reconstruction of critical infrastructure, including water pipelines and energy facilities. It is also one of the largest taxpayers in its industry.
Third place went to Rostdorstroy in Odesa (Yevgeny Konovalov and Yuri Schumacher). The company increased its revenue by 15% (to UAH 6.85 billion), while its profit fell by a quarter.
Onur Construction International from Lviv (owned by Turkish entrepreneurs Cetinjeviz Onur and Ihsan) climbed to fourth place. Its revenue grew by 30% to UAH 3.82 billion, and its profit almost tripled to UAH 418 million.
Fifth place went to a newcomer to the Index, Atelier de France Kyiv, a company engaged in the restoration of architectural monuments. Its revenue grew 6.4 times to UAH 2.9 billion, and its profit tripled (UAH 44 million). The owner is Frenchman Antoine Courtois, Philippe, Marie.
Ferrostroy from Poltava returned to the Index after a year’s hiatus, increasing its revenue 1.7 times to UAH 2.62 billion and its profit 2.6 times to UAH 298 million. The company is engaged in the construction of buildings.
Kosul (part of Rinat Akhmetov’s SCM Group) lost a quarter of its revenue and four places in the ranking, falling to seventh place with UAH 2.6 billion. At the same time, its profit grew by 8% to UAH 758.8 million. This company accounts for a quarter of the earnings of the top ten companies.
Vladimir Vypyrail’s Kyiv Energy Construction Company showed the largest profit growth — 8.8 times (to UAH 16.9 million), although its revenue fell by 6% to UAH 2.3 billion.
Techno-Bud-Center (Andriy Yarema and Yuriy Khanin) is another newcomer. Revenue grew 1.6 times to UAH 2.2 billion, and profit grew 1.5 times to UAH 26 million.
Vesta-I, which was headed by a new owner in March 2025, Tajik citizen Karimi Asolat Ismatzoda, showed a fourfold increase in revenue (UAH 2.2 billion), but instead of profit, it reported a loss of UAH 1.9 million.
So, in 2025, the following companies left the rating:
In January-March 2025, PJSC Insurance Company PZU Ukraine (Kyiv) increased its gross premiums by 10.89% to UAH 541.961 million, and net insurance premiums by 17.82% to UAH 555.2 million.
According to Standard-Rating, which updated the company’s credit rating/financial stability (reliability) rating on the national scale to “uaААА” based on the results of the period, revenues from individuals increased by 15.56% to UAH 378.1 million. Thus, the share of individuals in the insurer’s gross premiums amounted to 69.77%, and the share of reinsurers – 0.06%.
The volume of insurance payments and reimbursements made by the insurer in the first quarter of 2025 was 20.13% higher than in the same period of 2024, and the level of payments increased by 3.97 percentage points (pp) to 51.60%.
In January-March, the company’s operating profit amounted to UAH 40.570 million, compared with a loss in the first quarter of 2024, while net profit rose to UAH 58.395 million.
As of April 1, the insurer’s assets increased by 1.97% to UAH 2.547 billion, equity by 6.15% to UAH 1.028 billion, while liabilities decreased by 0.67% to UAH 1.519 billion, and cash and cash equivalents decreased by 18.02% to UAH 341.567 million.
The RA reports that as of the reporting date, the insurer had made financial investments in the amount of UAH 650.594 million, consisting of government bonds (UAH 298.355 million) and bank deposits (UAH 352.239 million), which had a positive impact on its liquidity. Thus, liquid assets covered 65.33% of the liabilities of IC “PZU Ukraine.”
The RA emphasizes that PrJSC IC ‘PZU Ukraine’ is supported by one of the largest insurance groups in Central and Eastern Europe, the PZU Group (which includes the parent company of PrJSC IC ‘PZU Ukraine,’ PZU S.A.).
Coal Energy S.A. (Luxembourg), a coal company with its main assets in Ukraine, which are currently under Russian occupation, signed a letter of intent with Polish mining company Siltech in mid-April to lease its real estate and infrastructure for coal mining in Poland.
“The main purpose of this letter of intent is to advance Coal Energy’s plan to apply for a license to extract coal from deposits adjacent to those owned by Siltech,” Coal Energy said in a stock exchange announcement.
It is noted that the lease is scheduled to begin at the end of 2025, after Coal Energy obtains all necessary permits to commence coal mining from the licensed deposits.
Coal Energy is expected to mine coal using Siltech’s existing mining infrastructure. This approach will reduce the time needed to start coal mining and eliminate the need for Coal Energy to invest in the construction of a new mining facility.
Coal Energy shares have been listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange since August 8, 2011. Its main activity was coal mining at two underground mines and working with coal dumps in the Donetsk region. According to the company, due to Russia’s aggression, it currently has no coal assets in Ukraine.
In recent years, the company has had virtually no operating activities. According to the latest report on Coal Energy’s website, its total assets at the end of September 2023 amounted to $9.7 million, while its liabilities amounted to $11.6 million and its capital was negative at $1.9 million.
At the end of 2023, the company acquired Ukrmineral Trading LLC with the aim of obtaining licenses for the extraction of minerals in Ukraine, as well as Advanced Industrial Technologies Sp. z.o.o. with the aim of providing underground mining services to coal mines in Poland. In addition, in early 2024, Coal Energy registered a new company, Greentech Solutions Sp. z.o.o., for the reclamation and processing of industrial waste dumps and mine tailings, as well as the reclamation of land destroyed by human activity.
The founder, chairman of the board of directors, and CEO is Viktor Vyshnevsky.
Ukraine has started importing gas via Slovakia, according to a Facebook post by Serhiy Makogon, former head of the Ukrainian Gas Transmission System Operator (OGTSU).
“Previously, imports came from Hungary and Poland, but the cheaper Hungarian route is already fully loaded, so suppliers are forced to buy more expensive capacity from Slovakia,” he wrote.
According to the former head of GTSOU, the average daily import is currently around 14.5 million cubic meters, but in order to accumulate 13.6 billion cubic meters by November 1, imports need to be increased by 2-3 times. At the same time, Slovakia has the largest import capacity – 42 million cubic meters per day.
As reported with reference to Makogon, in order to achieve last year’s planned targets for gas reserves in underground storage facilities (UGS), Ukraine needs to import at least 5 billion cubic meters by November 1, i.e., approximately 870 million cubic meters per month or 29 million cubic meters per day.
He noted that $2-2.5 billion is needed to import the minimum 5 billion cubic meters, of which $0.4 billion has already been provided by donors and may be provided further. At the same time, he believes that funds for gas purchases can also be found within the country, in particular from the budget through direct recapitalization of Naftogaz or through debt repayment schemes involving mutual settlements.
According to Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE), Ukraine switched from gas withdrawal from underground storage facilities to gas injection on April 17. According to them, this season’s withdrawal lasted from November 1, when there were 87.037 TWh (8.315 billion cubic meters) in UGS facilities, and ended on April 16 at 7.062 TWh (0.675 billion cubic meters) – the lowest level in history.
GIE indicates that this year Ukraine ended the heating season with reserves at 2.22% of the maximum UGS capacity, while last year the withdrawal season ended on March 30 with reserves of 11.12 TWh (3.388 billion cubic meters), or 11.12% of the UGS capacity.
In turn, according to former Energy Minister Olga Buslavets, the total level of natural gas reserves in Ukrainian UGS facilities at the end of last week was 6.1 billion cubic meters (including 4.7 billion cubic meters of “buffer gas”), which is 31% lower than last year.
Over the past week, net gas imports to Ukraine (excluding short-haul) averaged 14.4 million cubic meters per day (from Hungary and Poland), while daily gas consumption in Ukraine rose to 30-33 million cubic meters per day, according to the European platform. per day (from Hungary and Poland), while daily gas consumption in Ukraine increased to 30-33 million cubic meters per day, which, according to the European platform
Agregated Gas Storage Inventory (AGSI), allows no more than 27 million cubic meters per day to be pumped into UGS facilities.
