According to Fixygen, Strategy Inc., one of the largest corporate holders of Bitcoin, purchased $2.54 billion worth of the cryptocurrency last week, according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). This marks the company’s largest weekly Bitcoin purchase volume since November 2024.
According to the disclosed information, the purchase was financed using funds raised by Strategy through a $2.18 billion placement of preferred shares, as well as common shares.
Amid this news, the price of Bitcoin rose 0.6% on Monday, reaching $75,136. Over the past month, the cryptocurrency has risen 6% in value.
At the same time, Strategy’s own shares fell 3% in pre-market trading in the U.S.
Strategy Inc. is an American software development company, formerly known as MicroStrategy. In recent years, it has become one of the most prominent public corporate investors in Bitcoin, making the purchase of cryptocurrency a key element of its financial strategy. The company regularly raises capital through stock and debt offerings to further expand its cryptocurrency reserves.
According to Fixygen, PJSC “Odesavinprom” intends to hold a shareholders’ meeting on April 30, 2026. The company discloses corporate information on its own issuer website, where materials for shareholders and notices of material corporate actions are also posted. According to previously published corporate materials, in 2025, Odessavinprom’s shareholders had already made decisions regarding share issuances, and the supervisory board had amended the terms of the issuance. This indicates the company’s ongoing active corporate activity in recent years.
“Odesavinprom” is a producer of grape wines registered in the village of Rozyvka, Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi District, Odesa Region. According to the issuer’s website, the company’s EDRPOU code is 00412027, and its contact address is 1a Pryvokzalna St., Rozyvka village.
According to the company’s materials regarding the share issuance, the director of the private joint-stock company is Anton Obrezha, and the largest shareholders with stakes exceeding 5% are listed as Vasyl Bratinov with 61.666056% of the shares and Ignat Bratinov with 24.864674%. The company’s authorized capital as of the date of the decision to issue shares was UAH 16.403 million.
According to Opendatabot, PJSC “Odesavinprom” reported revenue of UAH 490.641 million in 2025, with 55 employees, and the company’s founding date is listed as November 18, 2002.
JSC “Tekhmash Manufacturing Enterprise” (Dnipro) ended 2025 with a net profit of UAH 5.22 million, which is 1.9 times higher than the corresponding figure for 2024.
According to the company’s financial report published in the disclosure system of the National Securities and Stock Market Commission (NSSMC), its net revenue for the year decreased by 3.5% to UAH 215 million. Total exports amounted to UAH 24.1 million, notably to Poland and France.
Profit from the company’s operating activities increased by 49.5% to UAH 6.2 million, while gross profit rose by 18.2% to UAH 31 million.
Additionally, it was reported that the general meeting of shareholders on April 16 of this year decided to allocate a portion of retained earnings totaling UAH 5 million toward the payment of dividends for 2025 at a rate of UAH 16,667 per share (with a par value of UAH 8). Dividends will be paid by October 16, 2025.
As previously reported, in 2024 (as in 2023), “Tekhmash” also allocated UAH 5 million from retained earnings for dividends.
According to the report, retained earnings amounted to nearly UAH 67 million as of the beginning of 2026.
The company lists its largest customers as the Nizhnedniprovsky Pipe Rolling Plant—20% of supply volume, “Fastiv Organic Biotechnologies”—13%, “Biopharma Plasma”—10%, with the remaining 57% accounted for by customers with shares of less than 6%.
“Since the main consumers of the company’s works and services are enterprises in the metallurgical industry, its operations depend to a significant extent on the state of the metallurgical sector. “Challenges specific to this line of business include intense competition, rising material costs, and high prices for spare parts and energy resources,” the report states.
The main specialization of Techmash is the installation of process equipment and pipelines, as well as the manufacture of conveyors (scraper, belt, and screw), storage equipment, metal structures, and exhaust air ducts.
As of the fourth quarter of 2024, according to the NSSMC, 61% of the authorized capital of JSC “Techmash” belongs to its director, Oleksandr Kolomoets, while four other individuals collectively own 28% of the shares. The company’s authorized capital is UAH 2.4 million.
As of early 2026, the company employed 193 people.
The Experts Club analytical center has analyzed the latest trends in the metallurgical sector and the data of the industry’s largest association, the World Steel Association. In 2026, according to the World Steel Association, the global steel market will move from a phase of prolonged adjustment to weak growth: global demand will increase by 0.3%, to 1.724 billion tons, and in 2027 it will accelerate to 1.762 billion tons, or by 2.2%. The association itself believes that the market is passing through the bottom of the 2025–2026 cycle after the structural pressures that had restrained demand since 2022. This means that the global steel industry is gradually emerging from its downturn, but it is doing so very unevenly across regions.
The key conclusion for Ukraine is that the external environment for metallurgy is, on the whole, no longer deteriorating. Worldsteel expects that in 2027 all major developed economies, including the EU, the US, Canada, Japan, and Korea, will already show positive steel demand dynamics. For the EU and the UK, steel consumption is forecast to grow by 1.3% in 2026 and by 3% in 2027, while for the US the figures are 1.7% and 2% respectively. This is important for Ukraine because the European market remains its main external reference point, both in terms of steel product sales and future industrial cooperation.
At the same time, the recovery in global demand will be asymmetric. China, which still determines the global market environment, will continue to reduce steel demand in 2026, though only by 1.5%, and in 2027, according to the association, will move to almost flat dynamics. The main driver of growth among major markets remains India, where demand is expected to increase by 7.4% in 2026 and by 9.2% in 2027. In the developing world excluding China, growth, on the contrary, will slow to 2.5% in 2026 because of the conflict in the Middle East, but will then recover.
For Ukraine, this means that the global market does not promise a sharp price or volume breakthrough, but neither does it create a scenario of a new collapse. In other words, over the next two years the decisive factor for Ukrainian metallurgy will no longer be so much global demand as Ukraine’s own ability to maintain and expand steelmaking, ensure energy supply, logistics, and access to export routes. In this sense, the external market environment is becoming moderately favorable rather than deteriorating, but it is not a saving grace.
Against this background, Ukraine’s own indicator looks restrained. At the end of 2025, the country produced 7.409 million tons of steel, which was 2.2% lower than the 2024 level, and ranked 21st in the world. This figure is significantly lower not only than pre-war levels, but also below the scale that once allowed Ukraine to influence the regional market as one of the major European players.
If the global market is indeed entering a phase of moderate recovery, then the window of opportunity for Ukraine will be determined not so much by whether global demand grows by 0.3% or 2.2%, but by whether the country can restore production volumes at least to a stable double-digit level in millions of tons. Worldsteel’s positive outlook for the EU, growing infrastructure and defense spending in Europe, as well as stabilizing demand in the developed world create the basis for higher consumption of Ukrainian steel in the future. But this opportunity will be realized only if Ukraine restores its own industrial capacity, not automatically.
In a broader sense, the Worldsteel forecast shows that steel is once again becoming an indicator of industrial policy. Where infrastructure investment, railways, defense budgets, and machine-building are growing, demand for metal returns. Ukraine’s post-war recovery strategy should consider metallurgy not as a separate export sector, but as a foundation for construction, machine-building, transport infrastructure, and defense production. Only in this case can even moderate global growth translate into a more tangible internal industrial effect for the country.
The World Steel Association (Worldsteel) brings together steel producers, industry associations, and research institutes from all key steel-producing countries. The association’s members account for around 85% of global steel output.
The path to the EU, border closures, changes in export structures, and new customs regulations—this is the reality in which “the art of defending” one’s own trade interests has become a key skill for business survival. How are the rules of the game changing for Ukrainian businesses in global markets? What can be expected from trade with the EU in the coming years? And how can businesses protect their interests amid increasingly fierce competition and the emergence of new barriers?
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According to Fixygen, PJSC ASC “Skarbnytsia” plans to hold a shareholders’ meeting on April 30, 2026. The company regularly publishes materials on corporate procedures and meeting minutes on its website in the relevant section for shareholders. Previously, the insurer has already held annual and extraordinary shareholder meetings, including on April 30, 2025, and has also published separate announcements regarding subsequent corporate decisions. This indicates that the standard schedule for corporate governance and reporting remains in place.
ASC “Skarbnytsia” is a Lviv-based insurance company operating as a private joint-stock company. According to its official website, the company was founded in 1991, with Ruslan Kozakevych listed as its CEO. According to Opendatabot data, the company’s revenue in 2025 amounted to 47.694 million UAH compared to 35.284 million UAH in 2024, and its authorized capital was 48 million UAH. Its primary business activity is other types of insurance, excluding life insurance.
The insurer’s website also publishes its ownership structure. As of January 1, 2026, the ownership chart includes, among others, Iryna Popovych, Maria Pasternak, Volodymyr Pasternak, Roman Pasternak, and the LLC “Asset Management Company ‘Western Investment Group.’” In 2024, the National Bank of Ukraine renewed the company’s existing licenses to conduct insurance activities across the full range of direct insurance classes that were in effect at the beginning of the year.
