At its meeting on September 5, the Supervisory Board of Naftogaz of Ukraine dismissed Roman Chumak from his position as a member of the board.
According to a statement on the company’s website, Taras Pasazhko has been appointed as the new board member for the period from September 17 to December 17, 2025.
Pasazhko joined Naftogaz in June 2025 as Director of Strategy and Business Development, where he was responsible for transforming the corporate center’s operating model, reviewing the investment portfolio, implementing strategic development initiatives, and assessing the financial and economic condition of the business.
From 2018 to 2024, he was responsible for investment development, strategic planning, and financial analytics at Fozzy Group, then headed the strategy and organizational development department at Vitagro Group.
As reported, Serhiy Koretsky has headed the board of Naftogaz of Ukraine since May 2025, which also includes Oksana Volynets (director of legal and regulatory affairs of the group), Serhiy Fedorenko (commercial director), and Olena Artazei (director of human capital).
Chumak has been a member of Naftogaz’s board since the end of September 2021, and from December 2024 to the end of April 2025, he temporarily served as the company’s chairman.
The Embassy of the Republic of Uzbekistan invites interested persons to visit the international exhibition “HoReCa Expo Uzbekistan 2025”, which will be held from October 21 to 23, 2025 in Tashkent at the “Uzexpocentre”.
The exhibition will showcase modern technologies and equipment for hotels, restaurants, catering and trade.
Visitors to HoReCa Expo Uzbekistan will be offered a full range of kitchen equipment, food and beverage products, furniture, textiles, IT solutions, security systems and many other solutions.
The main theme of the exhibition “Investments in service and comfort: business solutions for HoReCa” will include sessions on the following topics:
Exhibitors and guests of the exhibition will have the opportunity to get acquainted with the latest trends in the hospitality industry, establish contacts with key market representatives, new suppliers, partners and investors within the framework of organized B2B and B2C meetings, take part in master classes and seminars by international experts, and discover the latest innovations in the HoReCa sector.
For more details and registration, please follow the link.
INFORMATION FOR BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVES
For the attention of Ukrainian business representatives interested in establishing business relations with Uzbekistan, please find below some commercial offers for the supply of Uzbek goods and promising investment projects for consideration:
Commercial offers – http://bit.ly/4k1wNkk
Investment projects – http://bit.ly/3HRnPJ4
Exhibitions and fairs – http://bit.ly/4lczZKQ
If you have any questions, you can contact the Commercial Section of the Embassy of the Republic of Uzbekistan in Ukraine at the following contact details:
e-mail: info@uzbekistan.org.ua
tel.: +380445014184, +380445015000
The Moldovan government is preparing to build a high-speed highway that will connect the border with Romania and run to Odesa. Doina Nistor, Deputy Prime Minister and Head of the Ministry of Economy of Moldova, said this at the opening of Moldova Business Week.
Currently, a feasibility study is being prepared to determine the possible route of the road and whether parts of the new route will use existing roads.
In addition, Moldova is modernizing both rail and road corridors. The feasibility study for the Ungheni-Chisinau-Odesa corridor is scheduled to be completed by the end of 2025.
The road will be of particular importance for Ukraine’s reconstruction, as it will help shorten routes, reduce logistics costs and increase the resilience of supply routes.
Once the feasibility study is completed, a final decision on the route and construction details will be made. The project will depend on funding, international support, and cooperation between the governments of Moldova and Ukraine (and possibly Romania).
Ukrainian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Cyprus Serhiy Nezhynskyy in Nicosia has presented the original credentials signed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Cypriot President Nicos Christodoulidis. This was reported by the Embassy of Ukraine on its Facebook page.
Cyprus will act as the next President of the Council of the European Union.
In his speech, the Ambassador of Ukraine thanked President Christodoulidis for his unwavering support of Ukraine and expressed hope for a mutually beneficial partnership, which will further strengthen ties between Ukraine and Cyprus.
The President of Cyprus, in turn, emphasized the maximum support for the independence of Ukraine and the European course of the country.
The total level of natural gas reserves in Ukrainian underground storage facilities (UGS) at the end of last week was 11.5 billion cubic meters (including 4.7 billion cubic meters of long-term storage gas), which is 2% lower than last year’s figure.
This was reported by former Energy Minister Olga Buslavets on her Facebook page.
“Daily gas consumption in Ukraine over the past week has fluctuated at 23-24 million cubic meters per day, which, according to AGSI (the European platform Agregated Gas Storage Inventory – IF-U), allows more than 50 million cubic meters per day to be pumped into UGS facilities,” she wrote.
This daily injection volume is possible thanks to the available gas import volumes, which, according to the Ukrainian Gas Transmission System Operator (OGTSU), have amounted to about 23-24 million cubic meters per day from Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia since the beginning of September (excluding short-haul transit).
In turn, as Buslavets noted, at the end of last week, natural gas reserves in European UGS facilities increased to 84.5 billion cubic meters with a fill rate of 79%, which is 7% below the average for the last five years and 16% below last year’s level, or 16 billion cubic meters.
As reported, the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine plans to accumulate 13.2 billion cubic meters (or 8.6 billion cubic meters without taking into account “buffer gas”) by November 1, 2025, which, according to former OGTSU head Serhiy Makogon, is too low and will require additional imports of 1.5 billion cubic meters in winter.
Israeli deep-tech company NextSilicon has officially opened a new research and development center in Belgrade, Serbia.
The center is located in B23 Office Park, occupying approximately 1,200 m² on the 8th floor. It already employs more than 70 engineers and developers, with plans to hire about 50 more people by the end of 2026.
According to founder and CEO Elad Raz, the Serbian team is already having a significant impact on the company’s key technologies. “Serbia has exceeded expectations in terms of engineering talent and work culture,” he said.
The new center expands NextSilicon’s capabilities in high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence, including the development of the Maverick-2 product.
NextSilicon, founded in 2017, specializes in solutions for HPC and AI. Globally, the company has R&D centers and divisions in Israel, the US, Germany, Switzerland, and India. Its flagship product is the Maverick-2 chip, an Intelligent Compute Accelerator (ICA) focused on AI and HPC tasks. The company has a total of over 350 employees.
