President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that the government will soon launch contracts for the recruitment of 18-24 year olds into the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
“Next week, the government intends to launch lucrative recruitment contracts to attract young people aged 18-24 – up to draft age – to the Armed Forces to help eliminate labor shortages,” he told Reuters.
However, Zelensky declined to say how many men are expected to sign up.
As reported, the special representative of US President-elect Donald Trump, Mike Volz, believes that to stabilize the front in Ukraine it is necessary to lower the mobilization age, which would allow to call into the army “hundreds of thousands of new soldiers”.
Earlier, Zelensky commented on the discussion on lowering the mobilization age in Ukraine, pointing to the understaffing of Ukrainian brigades and the lack of weapons.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed ambassadors to the Republic of Moldova and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay.
The relevant decrees No. 77/2025 and No. 78/2025 were published on the President’s website.
Thus, Paun Rogovei was appointed Ambassador of Ukraine to the Republic of Moldova.
At the same time, Ambassador of Ukraine to the Argentine Republic Yurii Klymenko was appointed ambassador to the Eastern Republic of Uruguay with concurrent appointment.
In addition, the President appointed Ambassador to Hungary Fedir Shandor as Ukraine’s representative to the Danube Commission on a part-time basis. By Decree No. 75/2025, the President dismissed Lyubov Nepop from this position.
The leading domestic retailer of household appliances and electronics Comfy (Comfy Trade LLC) received UAH 47 billion 720.9 million in revenue in 2024, which is 27.1% higher than in 2023, the company’s press service toldInterfax-Ukraine.
It emphasized that 2024 was the first year when the company exceeded $1 billion in revenue. Last year, the company paid UAH 2 billion to the state budget, which is twice as much as in the previous year.
In 2024, Comfy opened eight new stores in Oleksandria, Berdychiv, Khodosivka, Mohyliv-Podilskyi, Khmelnytskyi, Vinnytsia, Lviv, and even frontline Zaporizhzhia, and also restored stores in Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih, and Irpin that were damaged by Russian missiles.
In addition, Comfy updated all existing stores to reflect changes in customer demand and behavior and assortment.
In 2024, the reformatting tasks included updating the online order pickup area. Thanks to active development, Comfy has created more than half a thousand jobs across the country.
The retailer, together with the Prometheus platform, launched a free professional course “Marketing Manager” for Ukrainians who lost their jobs as a result of the war. The retraining program has already been completed by 500 people.
In addition, in 2024, the retailer donated UAH 28.6 million to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
In total, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, the amount of aid has reached more than UAH 160 million.
According to Opendatabot, Comfy Trade LLC is owned by Comfy Holdings Limited (100%, Cyprus), with Stanislav Ronis and Svitlana Gutsul as the ultimate beneficiaries.
In January, DTEK Energy’s coal mining enterprises commissioned the first two new longwalls this year, the energy holding said in a press release on Wednesday.
“We have to think not only about this heating season, but also prepare for the summer consumption peaks and the next winter. We are working as a team – power engineers, miners and machine builders. We are already commissioning coal longwalls to ensure a stable supply of resources for our TPPs,” said DTEK Energy CEO Oleksandr Fomenko.
In 2024, the company’s investments in Ukrainian coal mining amounted to UAH 7.5 billion. These funds were spent on the construction and repair of capital mine workings, completion of coal faces, equipping mines with tunneling equipment, underground mine transport and projects to maintain production facilities.
As reported, DTEK Energy’s machine builders manufactured and repaired almost 1.1 thousand units of mining equipment in 2024. The key products include 11 new roadheaders and shearers.
“DTEK Energy provides a closed cycle of electricity generation from coal. As of January 2022, the company’s installed capacity in thermal generation amounted to 13.3 GW. The company has established a full production cycle in coal mining: coal mining and enrichment, mechanical engineering, and maintenance of mine equipment.
Currently, most of DTEK Group’s thermal generation facilities have been destroyed as a result of Russian attacks.
The international financial service NovaPay (TM NovaPay) for 9 months. 2024 has doubled the number of its own POS-terminals in Nova Poshta offices, bringing their number to 5,790 devices, the service’s press service reports.
“NovaPay is expanding its terminal fleet. In nine months, NovaPay has doubled the number of its own POS terminals in Nova Poshta offices, bringing their number to 5,790 devices,” the service’s press service said on Thursday.
Currently, 60% of all POS-terminals installed in Nova Poshta offices are from NovaPay. Each branch has at least one of the financial service’s own terminals, the press service said.
“A few years ago, we decided to invest in creating our own network of POS terminals. We keep a high pace of terminal fleet development and have already seen noticeable results. The customer service time has decreased from 22 to 13 seconds, and the number of failures has decreased. And most importantly, we are less dependent on third-party providers,” the press service quoted Alexey Ruban, NovaPay’s Chief Innovation Officer, as saying.
According to him, by building its own network of POS terminals in the country, the company was able to optimize processes and significantly save on commissions, directing the saved funds to further develop products and offers for customers.
By the end of 2025, NovaPay plans to increase the number of POS terminals by another 2.5 thousand and enter the open market.
Earlier it was reported that NovaPay made 418 million transfers in 2024, which is 18% more than in 2023. According to the press service of NovaPay on Tuesday, the total volume of transfers through the system in 2024 reached UAH 308.5 billion, which is 31% more than in 2023.
“NovaPay (TM NovaPay) is an international financial service that is part of the NOVA group of companies and has been providing online and offline payment services in more than 3,600 Nova Poshta branches for over 12 years. The service was the first non-bank financial institution in Ukraine to receive an extended license from the NBU, which allowed it to open accounts and issue cards.
According to the National Bank of Ukraine, as of December 1, 2024, NovaPay LLC issued 449.11 thousand payment cards, of which 123.34 thousand were active (at least one transaction in November). With a share of 0.22%, the company ranked 17th in the market, but still lags far behind the leaders PrivatBank (29.28 million) and mono (9.86 million active cards). At the same time, at the beginning of 2024, NovaPay issued only 13 thousand cards.
In addition, the company had 10.71 thousand installed payment terminals at the beginning of December, compared to 3.43 thousand at the beginning of the year, and installed the first 10 self-service devices. In terms of the number of payment terminals, NovaPay with a 2.1% share overtook Ukrposhta with its 1.4% share and ranked fifth in the market, where the undisputed leader is PrivatBank with a 60.7% share.
Greenhouse cucumbers are rising in price again in Ukraine, according to analysts of the EastFruit project. Market participants attribute the increase in prices in this segment to the increased demand for greenhouse cucumbers amid a relatively low supply of these products.
As of today, greenhouse cucumbers go on sale at 80-120 UAH/kg ($1.93-2.89/kg), which is on average 23% more expensive than a week earlier.
Another reason for the rise in the price of greenhouse cucumbers was the rather limited supply of these products on the market. Thus, today the main supply on the Ukrainian market is exclusively imported products, as Ukrainian greenhouse plants will enter the market with a new turnover not earlier than the middle of this month.
However, despite the rise in price of greenhouse cucumbers, today these products are offered for sale in Ukraine on average 12% cheaper than in early February last year. For more information on the development of the greenhouse cucumber market and other fruit and vegetable products in Ukraine, please subscribe to the operational analytical weekly – EastFruit Ukraine Weekly Pro. Detailed product information is available here.
Source: https://east-fruit.com/novosti/ukraina-teplichnyj-ogurecz-za-nedelyu-podorozhal-na-23/
