According to the results of 2025, the plants of the Ostchem nitrogen holding produced 1.571 million tons of mineral fertilizers, which is 12.7% less than in 2024, when the reduction compared to 2023 was 13%, according to the holding’s press release.
According to the press release, Cherkasy Azot produced 1.017 million tons of mineral fertilizers in 2025, Rivneazot produced 554,300 tons, while a year earlier, they produced 1.4 million tons and 407,000 tons, respectively.
The key products manufactured by Ostchem plants in 2025 were ammonium nitrate – 672,400 tons (42.8% of the total volume), UAN – 539.17 thousand tons (34.3%), urea – 232.03 thousand tons (14.8%), and ammonia – 61.47 thousand tons (3.9%).
Compared to 2024, the production of ammonium nitrate decreased by 11.6%, urea by 42.3%, and ammonia by 18.0%. At the same time, UAN production increased by 6.4%.
“In 2025, the Ukrainian chemical industry operated under stressful conditions. Rising costs, unstable energy supplies, and pressure from cheap imports directly raise the question of the industry’s survival. To be frank, in such an environment, it is no longer a question of marginality, but of preserving the country’s production base,” said Serhiy Pavlyuchuk, director of production at Ostchem’s nitrogen business, in a press release.
According to him, the main factors that continued to hold back production in 2025 were the high cost of energy resources, unstable electricity supply, military risks, a decline in effective demand from farmers, and continued pressure from imports.
Pavlychuk emphasized that in 2025, the plants operated exclusively on confirmed demand and focused on products that were in demand in the current market conditions.
According to Ostchem, in 2025, the total volume of mineral fertilizer imports to Ukraine amounted to 2.94 million tons, of which 1.77 million tons were nitrogen fertilizers, while in 2024, these figures were 2.49 million tons and 1.4 million tons, respectively.
The largest volumes of imports in 2025 were urea (650,400 tons) and ammonium nitrate (446,500 tons).
The main suppliers of urea were Azerbaijan (392,700 tons) and Turkmenistan (158,200 tons), while for ammonium nitrate, they were Poland (214,200 tons), Bulgaria (119,500 tons), Kazakhstan (45,100 tons), and Uzbekistan (29,400 tons).
Ostchem, citing Eurostat data, added that in 2025, imports of Russian fertilizers to EU countries, in particular to Poland, increased by almost 1.5 times. This import structure increases price pressure on the domestic Ukrainian market and directly affects the utilization of Ukrainian production capacities, the holding noted.
Ostchem is a nitrogen holding company of Group DF, which unites the largest producers of mineral fertilizers in Ukraine. It includes Rivneazot, Cherkasy Azot, as well as Severodonetsk Azot and Stirol, which are located in the occupied territories and are not operating.
Group DF consolidates the assets of businessman Dmitry Firtash in the chemical, titanium, and port industries, as well as in infrastructure, logistics, agriculture, and media.
