The Ukrainian drogerie chain EVA (Rush LLC) plans to expand its e-commerce logistics capacities after acquiring a warehouse in Brovary from Dragon Capital, the chain’s press service reports.
According to the report, the acquisition of the facility of the subsidiary SC Omega-1 Logistic in Brovary is due to the rapid expansion of e-commerce, which means an increase in the range and number of orders in the EVA.UA online store.
“Starting from the third quarter of this year, we plan to start re-equipping the facility acquired from Dragon Capital. In 2026, we plan to move our warehouse there, which will serve the EVA retail network in the central regions of Ukraine,” Olha Shevchenko, Executive Director of Rush LLC, said in a statement.
According to her, EVA’s own distribution center in Kyiv region with a total area of 43 thousand square meters is divided into a warehouse for the retail network (22 thousand square meters) and e-commerce (21 thousand square meters). After the re-equipment of the acquired warehouse with the area of 19.1 thousand square meters, the company plans to fully dedicate its distribution center to e-commerce.
The acquisition of the asset near the existing warehouse will also allow the company to keep its team in Brovary, Shevchenko said.
As reported, the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine granted permission to Rush LLC to acquire SC Omega-1 Logistic in January 2024. The sale was completed in February.
Rush LLC, which manages the EVA network, was founded in 2002. At the end of 2024, the chain had about 1080 operating stores.
According to Opendatabot, the owner of Rush LLC is Cyprus-based Incetera Holdings Limited (100%), with Ruslan Shostak and Valeriy Kiptyk as the ultimate beneficiaries.
According to the results of three quarters of 2024, Rush’s revenue amounted to UAH 19.2 billion and net profit amounted to UAH 1.2 billion. In 2023, the company’s revenue increased by 33.7% to UAH 21 billion compared to 2022, while net profit increased by 26% to UAH 2.2 billion.
President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen says that the European Union and its member states have provided EUR 145 billion in assistance to Ukraine.
“The European Union and its member states have supported Ukraine with 145 billion euros. This is more than anyone else has helped,” von der Leyen said during the Support Ukraine plenary session in Kyiv on Monday.
According to her, the EU has helped Ukraine cover the country’s budget deficit for the entire year 2025.
“In parallel, we must immediately provide weapons and armaments. And this will be at the center of our work over the next few weeks,” the European Commission President emphasized.
She also emphasized that Europe will strengthen Ukraine “at this critical moment”.
“I can announce that a new payment of 3.5 billion euros to Ukraine will be received in March,” von der Leyen said.
President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen announced the integration of the energy markets of Ukraine and Moldova into the European market by the end of next year.
“The European Commission has prepared an ambitious energy security package. The goal is to guarantee a sustainable, secure and competitive energy system for Ukraine,” she said on Monday in Kyiv, speaking at the Support Ukraine plenary session.
According to von der Leyen, during this winter, Europe provided Ukraine with 1.8 GW of electricity. “But now we will fully integrate the Ukrainian and Moldovan electricity markets into our European one by the end of next year. And we will use a potential volume of 80% of all gas reserves, which will help create profitability. All this will increase the energy security of both the European Union and Ukraine,” the President of the European Commission said.
The agriculture ministers of Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Slovakia have called on the European Commission to return to pre-war quotas after the end of autonomous trade measures in trade in Ukrainian agro-products, Hungarian Agriculture Minister Istvan Nagy said on Facebook.
“There are things we do not allow! We protect the interests and livelihoods of farmers from Ukrainian agricultural products. In a joint letter with my colleagues the agriculture ministers of Bulgaria, Romania and Slovakia called on Brussels to take action,” he wrote.
The Hungarian minister recalled that the EU regulation governing imports from Ukraine ends in June 2025, so the European Commission must find a long-term solution to market difficulties arising on the European market due to Ukrainian agricultural products.
“In the joint letter, we called on the committee to return to pre-war quotas, to introduce measures to protect agricultural products, to introduce automatic protection and individual quotas for member states on a regional basis. In addition, we also asked Brussels to require EU plant health and health protection, animal welfare, health and environmental protection for Ukrainian agricultural products,” Nagy said.
He specified that Hungary wonders whether Brussels will take into account the interests of Eastern European farmers this time or betray them again, as it happened in September 2023, when the ban on imports of Ukrainian agricultural products to the EU was not extended.
Nagy assured that Hungary will keep import restrictions on Ukrainian agricultural products in its national jurisdiction as long as there is no need to protect Hungarians.
“We are in solidarity with Ukraine, but we will protect the viability and competitiveness of farmers,” the Hungarian agriculture minister summarized.
Chernihiv-based Proviant Group of Companies, headed and owned by Valentyn Zaporoshchuk (Ichnia and MamaMilla brands), purchased the bankrupt Gadyachsyr cheese factory (Poltava region) at a second auction on Prozoro.Sale on February 17.
According to the trading platform, the price of the cheese plant was UAH 99.2 million at the first auction in September 2024. At the second auction, which was held on the principle of a Dutch auction (downward bidding – IF-U), Gadchsyr was sold for UAH 44.03 million, which is 40% cheaper than the starting price. Full payment is expected within 10 business days, i.e. by March 4, 2025.
The new owner will receive a complex of industrial buildings and auxiliary facilities of the Gadyachsyr plant, two land plots of 4 hectares and 0.7 hectares, as well as almost 900 inventory items of various equipment.
“Gadyachsyr was declared bankrupt in 2023. The company was part of Ruslan Badayev’s Almira holding. The state register lists Oleg Balyuk as the ultimate beneficiary.
As reported, according to the decision of the Shevchenkivskyi District Court of Kyiv of May 14, 2018, published in the Unified State Register of Court Decisions, Ukreximbank officials issued loans to Agroprodeexport and Tekhmolprom secured by illiquid property of the state bank in order to. According to the investigation, the total debt of Agroprodeexport and Tekhmolprom, as well as the company International Seafood Group LLC, on these loans amounted to UAH 2.1 billion.
“Tekhmolprom was founded in 2007. The company’s core business is milk processing, butter and cheese production. Agroprodexport was founded in 2007 and is primarily engaged in wholesale trade of dairy products, eggs, edible oils and fats. RVD-Agro LLC was founded in 2003. The company specializes in growing cereals (except rice), pulses and oilseeds.
The ultimate beneficial owner of Agroprodexport, RVD-Agro LLC and Tekhmolprom LLC is Oleh Balyuk. He is also the ultimate beneficiary of Gadyachsyr, which is listed as a legal entity associated with the three borrowing companies.
Proviant LLC was founded in 2003 in Chernihiv. It specializes in milk processing, butter and cheese production, wholesale of dairy products, eggs, edible oils and fats.
According to Opendatabot, in 2023, the company’s revenue amounted to UAH 74.683 million, net profit – UAH 8.3 million, and debt obligations – UAH 675.95 million. The assets are estimated at UAH 122.32 million.
Zaporoshchuk acquired Proviant LLC in October 2021 from Oleksandr Ivanov.
Last year, non-resident companies supplying electronic services declared UAH 12.1 billion in VAT, of which they paid UAH 11.2 billion, which is almost 40% more than in 2023, Danylo Hetmantsev, chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Finance, Taxation and Customs Policy, said in his telegram channel on Sunday.
According to him, the number of payers of the “Google tax” increased by 29 non-residents over the year to 130 as of January 1, 2025.
“Having reported for the fourth quarter of 2024, budget revenues in January-February 2025 amounted to about UAH 3.5 billion (EUR 39.5 million and $43.5 million). I would like to note that the trend is only increasing, because compared to the same period in 2024, revenues increased by UAH 1 billion,” the Chairman of the Rada Committee cited the data.
Hetmantsev noted that the leaders in the declaration of VAT on digital services in the fourth quarter of last year were Google, Apple, VALVE CORPORATION, ETSY, META platforms, WARGAMING GROUP, Sony and Netflix.
“By the way, Bolt and Uklon platforms have paid about EUR4.5 million or UAH 200 million in tax in 2024,” he emphasized.
As reported, in 2021, the Verkhovna Rada passed a law on the “Google tax”, which proposes to equalize the taxation rules for international technology companies with those of Ukraine. In particular, it stipulates that international companies operating in the information space of Ukraine and earning money from online advertising will pay taxes in Ukraine, including VAT.
