The total cost of rebuilding and reconstructing Ukraine over the next 10 years is estimated at $588 billion, which is $64 billion more than last year and almost three times the nominal GDP for 2025, according to the Ministry of Community and Territorial Development of Ukraine.
According to the fifth assessment of damage and needs (RDNA5) presented by the ministry and the World Bank, the largest amount of investment is needed in the transport sector — more than $96 billion over a decade to modernize roads, railways, and ports. The needs of the housing sector are estimated at $90 billion (14% of the housing stock has been destroyed or damaged), and those of the energy and water sectors at $17.5 billion.
“We need $15.25 billion to implement priority projects in 2026. We have secured $5.8 billion in funding, but the shortfall remains critical at $9.5 billion,” the ministry quoted Deputy Prime Minister for Recovery and Minister of Community and Territorial Development Oleksiy Kuleba as saying.
According to the ministry, the heat supply sector remains critically underfunded: with a need of $1.6 billion for 2026, less than 1% of the funding has been secured. There is also a significant shortage of funds in the energy, housing construction, and transport sectors, where only a third of the needs are currently covered.
The Ministry of Development reminded that three key priorities have been identified in the context of the war: energy security of communities (protection of facilities and distributed generation), housing restoration, and logistics support.
An installation with an anti-drone net became a symbolic element of the report presentation. The ministry emphasized that hundreds of kilometers of roads in frontline regions are already equipped with such protective structures.
The RDNA5 report was prepared jointly with the World Bank, the European Commission, and the UN. It covers the period from February 24, 2022, to December 31, 2025.
OTP Bank (Kyiv) has begun providing online acquiring services for businesses that sell online, the financial institution announced on Tuesday.
“The online acquiring service has been operational since the first days of 2026. Before the launch, the bank studied competitors’ offers and user needs, and the decision to launch was made taking into account customer requests,” said Serhiy Sereda, director of the corporate products and services department at OTP Bank.
According to the bank’s statement, the service features include connection within two days and crediting of funds from sales twice a day: at the beginning and end of the working day.
According to the bank, the service provides customers with various e-commerce tools, including accepting payments via QR codes and payment links, setting up a payment button on the website, including Apple Pay and Google Pay, as well as automated solutions for integrating payment instruments into customers’ mobile applications.
As Sereda noted, the bank is guided by market rates, and the main users of the service are currently existing customers of the bank. The rate for internet acquiring is 1.5% for Ukrainian bank cards and 2.3% for foreign bank cards. There is a possibility of applying individual rates as the volume of transactions increases.
The bank announced plans to scale up its online acquiring business in 2026 and launch merchant acquiring in the second quarter.
“The project’s benchmarks are customer satisfaction with product quality and service profitability, and the bank expects to reach profitability as soon as possible,” Sereda added.
According to the National Bank, OTP Bank ranked 10th among the country’s 60 banks in terms of total assets as of January 1, 2026, with UAH 135.99 billion. Its net profit for 2025 amounted to UAH 5.45 billion.
The Norwegian government has approved a decision to allocate 85 billion Norwegian kroner (1 krone = $0.1) to support Ukraine in 2026, of which 70 billion kroner will go to military aid and 15 billion kroner to support civil society, the government press service reported on Tuesday.
“In close dialogue with the Ukrainian authorities, the government has now determined the main direction of military support for Ukraine in 2026. We will use the funds where they will have the greatest effect for Ukrainians,” said Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre.
Priority attention in the field of military support will be given to drones, air defense, artillery ammunition, and the training and equipping of Ukrainian military personnel, the statement said.
Thus, more than 12 billion kroner will be allocated for drones and their autonomy (equipment capable of operating independently), about 9 billion kroner for air defense and F-16 fighter jets, about 6 billion kroner for maritime security, more than 8 billion kroner for international cooperation mechanisms and strategic projects, etc.
In addition, 11.5 billion kroner allocated in 2025 will be spent on military needs in 2026.
As the prime minister noted, if during the year it becomes necessary to change the areas of support, “they will be carried out in close cooperation with the Ukrainians.”
One of Ukraine’s largest grain market operators, Nibulon, has launched a new phase of its humanitarian demining initiative and signed an agreement with German organization DEG Impulse gGmbH for €7.8 million in funding, the company announced on Facebook.
According to the report, the funds under the develoPPP program will be used for maritime and inland water demining in southern Ukraine. The project involves the construction of a 90-meter marine platform equipped with modern unmanned underwater systems (ROV, AUV, and UUS) for clearing waterways at Nibulon’s own shipyard.
According to the company’s estimates, the implementation of the project will make it possible to clear more than 10 square kilometers of water areas in the Mykolaiv and Kherson regions and additionally clean up more than 13,600 hectares of agricultural land. This will allow more than 200 farms to resume safe operations and ensure an annual production of more than 70,000 tons of grain.
In addition, the initiative includes the creation of a technical service center, the deployment of a mobile rapid response infrastructure, and the training of more than 60 specialists (sappers, operators, and divers). The project’s coastal base will be certified according to IMAS international standards.
“This new stage not only strengthens our technical capabilities, but also demonstrates how Ukrainian business can take the lead in overcoming the consequences of war,” emphasized Oleksandra Dolzhenkova, Nibulon’s director of government relations.
As reported, Nibulon is actively developing its own humanitarian demining unit to restore security on leased land and assist Ukraine’s agricultural sector. The company is a certified mine action operator. In February 2026, Vsevolod Petrovsky, an expert on international missions in Somalia and Libya, headed Nibulon’s demining division.
Before the war, Nibulon cultivated 82,000 hectares of land in 12 regions of Ukraine and exported agricultural products to more than 70 countries around the world. In 2021, the grain trader exported a record 5.64 million tons of agricultural products. After the war began, the company was forced to move its central office from Mykolaiv to Kyiv. In addition to 23 elevator complexes, Nibulon has its own road and rail transport facilities, as well as a fleet built at its own shipyard. Even during wartime, this fleet continues to operate river transport on the Dnipro, Danube, and Southern Bug rivers.
According to Fixygen, Kharkiv Tractor Plant (HTZ), part of businessman Oleksandr Yaroslavskyi’s DCH group, has announced a general shareholders’ meeting to review its performance in 2022-2024, with plans to approve a procedure for covering losses incurred.
According to the announcement of the meeting on March 27, it is planned, in particular, to approve the reports of the CEO and the supervisory board (SB) on the company’s activities in 2022-2024, approve the audit reports, and terminate the powers and elect a new composition of the SB.
The draft decision of the meeting states that the losses incurred during these years are planned to be covered by profits from economic activities in future periods.
The report does not provide financial performance indicators for KhTZ in 2022-2024. According to YouControl, in 2022, the plant incurred losses of UAH 50 million and net income of UAH 123 million (compared to UAH 138.3 million and UAH 476 million, respectively, a year earlier), in 2023 – UAH 14.6 million in net profit and UAH 199.2 million in net income, and in 2024 – UAH 359 million in losses and UAH 300 million in net income.
As reported, on July 23, 2025, the Commercial Court of Kharkiv Region opened a preventive restructuring procedure for the private joint-stock company Kharkiv Tractor Plant (PJSC HTZ).
The company requested the opening of the procedure due to financial difficulties. HTZ has total creditor debt of UAH 2.29 billion, which it is unable to repay, indicating an unstable financial situation.
In December of the same year, a preventive restructuring plan was approved, which provides for the repayment of debts within three years and three months (until March 17, 2029).
Kharkiv Tractor Plant has been manufacturing tractors since 1931 and was acquired by Alexander Yaroslavsky’s DCH group in 2016. In 2023, with the support of the UN World Food Programme and the Swiss Foundation for Mine Action (FSD Ukraine), HTZ developed, certified, and launched the production of a demining machine based on the T-150 crawler tractor.
