PJSC Insurance Company PZU Ukraine (Kyiv) collected UAH 2.884 billion in net premiums in 2025, which is 41.9% more than in 2024 (UAH 2.033 billion), according to the insurer’s interim data posted on the information disclosure system of the National Securities and Stock Market Commission (NSSMC).
Premiums written for the year increased by 27.7% to UAH 2.772 billion.
In 2025, the company made compensation payments of UAH 2.739 billion, which is 23.5% more than in 2024. At the same time, gross profit amounted to UAH 145.042 million, while a year earlier it was UAH 184.743 million.
The financial result before tax amounted to UAH 391,015 thousand, and profit expenses amounted to UAH 60.088 million.
The insurer’s net loss for 2025 amounted to UAH 330.931 million, while in 2024, the company ended with a net loss of UAH 21.749 million.
PZU Ukraine Insurance Company is supported by one of the largest insurance groups in Central and Eastern Europe, PZU Group, which includes the parent company of PZU Ukraine Insurance Company, PZU S.A.
According to the National Bank of Ukraine, PZU Ukraine ranks 11th in terms of premiums collected for the first nine months of 2025 among non-life insurers in Ukraine.
Ruslan Romanov, Head of the Prosecutors’ Council of Ukraine, said there is a targeted information campaign and attempts at manipulation surrounding the formation of the конкурс commission for selecting the leadership of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAP). According to him, criticism of the appointment of certain members of the commission, including attorney Oleksii Shevchuk, is subjective and ignores legislative requirements.
He said this in an interview with the Judicial and Legal Gazette.
Romanov emphasized that Prosecutor General Ruslan Kravchenko acted strictly within the law, and that any demands to cancel the appointments without legal grounds constitute direct interference with his independence.
According to the head of the Council, the selection procedure was as public as possible; however, civic activists and lawyers showed insufficient interest in participating in the competition. Within the установлен term, only four candidates submitted documents, including Oleksii Shevchuk. Romanov suggested that the low activity of the civic sector may be linked to fear of the need to declare assets and to assume real responsibility. He stressed that the law does not provide a mechanism for recalling a commission member due to media backlash, but only on clearly defined grounds such as a personal statement or health condition.
The scandal erupted after a number of leading civil society organizations (CPC, “AutoMaidan,” “DEJURE”) and media outlets called on the Prosecutor General to replace Oleksii Shevchuk. The Prosecutors’ Council warned that any незакон personnel changes would lead to lawsuits and would block the work of the commission for an indefinite period.
In response to questions from the public and the media about the process of forming the конкурс commission that selects candidates for administrative posts in the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAP), the Prosecutors’ Council of Ukraine and the Prosecutor General explained the sequence of events and the procedure for actions by prosecution bodies.
Spokesman for the National Association of Advocates of Ukraine Oleksii Shevchuk stated that he and his family had received direct threats to their life and health related to his appointment as a member of the commission for selecting prosecutors of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (SAP).
The business confidence indicator in the Ukrainian construction market rose by 1.2 percentage points (pp) in the first quarter of 2026 compared to the fourth quarter of 2025, to “minus” 27.7%, according to the State Statistics Service (Gosstat).
According to a survey of construction companies conducted by the agency, the assessment of the current volume of orders deteriorated by 1.7 p.p. to “minus” 43.1%. Thus, 56% of the companies surveyed assessed their current volume of orders as normal for the season, while 42% assessed it as insufficient.
Sixty percent of respondents expect prices for their services to increase at the end of the first quarter of this year. Only 5% of respondents predict a decrease in the cost of construction work, while 39% do not expect any changes in pricing policy.
According to State Statistics Service data, the companies participating in the survey have an average of six months’ worth of orders, which corresponds to the pre-war figure at the beginning of 2022.
The statistics agency notes that in the first quarter of 2026, the negative impact on construction will be due to labor shortages (56.8%), financial constraints (47%), insufficient demand (33%), and other factors (45%). At the same time, expectations of a negative impact from weather conditions have increased significantly: while 12% of the companies surveyed reported this factor in the previous quarter, the number has now risen to 45%.
About 29% of the companies surveyed expect a reduction in the number of employees in January-March, while 57% believe that their number will remain unchanged, and 14% predict an expansion of staff.
According to the State Statistics Service, 40% of respondents noted an increase in the volume of construction work completed in the last quarter, while 27% reported a decrease in volume.
The survey showed that 98% of Ukrainian construction companies find it quite difficult to predict the future development of the business situation.
The statistics do not include territories temporarily occupied by the Russian Federation and parts of territories where hostilities are (were) ongoing.
In 2025, the Euroformat plant increased elevator production by 20% compared to 2024, primarily due to government programs supporting domestic manufacturers, according to Igor Tkachenko, CEO of the Euroformat Lifts group of companies.
“We consider the program to compensate 15% of the cost of Ukrainian equipment under the ‘Made in Ukraine’ initiative and the introduction of a minimum localization requirement for goods participating in public procurement to be effective tools for promoting national production,” he told Interfax-Ukraine.
Tkachenko did not specify the number of elevators produced by the plant, citing the military context, but noted that every tenth elevator installed during the year is manufactured by Euroformat, and among the elevators that meet current construction requirements, one in three is manufactured by Euroformat, since imported elevators supplied on a one-off basis often have serious deviations from standards and requirements.
Describing the elevator market in Ukraine, which has developed over the past few years, Tkachenko noted that previously it had a large number of imports, often in the form of one-off contracts for small batches.
“In 2022, out of 80 companies that imported elevators, 46 brought in no more than 10 units, and 38 brought in no more than five. Most of these suppliers (76%) imported elevators from Turkey and China. The situation in 2023 only got worse: 97 companies imported elevators from Turkey alone. At the same time, in most cases, importers were unable to provide adequate warranty service, technical support, or regular supply of spare parts,” he said.
Tkachenko added that the expectations from the support programs were generally met: the growth of Ukrainian elevator production in 2025 by approximately 25% and an increase in the share of the domestic market to about 40% testify to the effectiveness of these mechanisms.
“At the same time, imports still account for more than half of the market, which means there is significant potential for further growth in the coming years,” said the CEO of the group of companies.
According to him, domestic manufacturers have untapped production capacity: the combined capacity of Ukrainian enterprises allows them to produce up to about 5,000 elevators per year, but the actual production load remains significantly lower.
“In particular, at the Euroformat plant, the load factor in 2025 was about 35%. This figure is still lower than it was before 2022, but we are seeing positive dynamics,” Tkachenko emphasized.
At the same time, he believes that when an elevator is manufactured in Ukraine, the manufacturer’s responsibility for the entire life cycle of the equipment, from installation to service, is formed along with it for decades.
“For the end user, this means less downtime, faster elevator repair, higher safety, and predictable operating costs,” Tkachenko emphasized.
He also said that, in parallel with its production activities, the company has invested in its production base: new laser cutting and welding sections have been launched, the range of wheelchair lifts has been expanded, and dozens of design improvements have been introduced in elevator equipment.
“It is important to note that this is not a one-time growth, but the formation of a stable production cycle — with planning, predictable volumes, and the development of service infrastructure,” Tkachenko emphasized.
According to him, the volume of investments in production modernization in 2025 exceeded UAH 12 million without attracting grants, while in 2024 they accounted for 60% of the UAH 25 million invested.
Among the landmark projects implemented in 2025, Tkachenko named two projects for the manufacture and installation of hospital elevators in medical facilities. In one of them, they worked in a building that is an architectural monument and developed an exclusive elevator with custom cabin dimensions. Before putting it into operation, additional tests were carried out.
As for the other project, the company worked on the request from project development to commissioning.
“These cases confirm that the national manufacturer is capable of meeting the complex, custom, and inclusive needs of Ukrainian medical institutions,” Tkachenko emphasizes.
According to Dmitry Kiselevsky, deputy chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Economic Development, Ukrainian elevator manufacturers increased production by 25% in 2025, growing their share of the domestic market to 40% from 30% a year ago.
According to the MP, participation in the program to compensate 15% of the cost of Ukrainian equipment requires a localization level of at least 40%, and all leading Ukrainian elevator manufacturers meet these requirements, in particular, elevators from the Euroformat plant have a localization level of 60%.
Euroformat was founded in 2002 as a metalworking enterprise. Since 2006, it has been manufacturing elevators for the residential and commercial sectors. The company has the only test tower in Ukraine and the largest in Eastern Europe, with a height of 40 m and two shafts. The Euroformat Lifts group of companies includes the Euroformat plant and a number of service companies.
According to YouControl, in January-September 2025, the Euroformat plant received UAH 2.98 million in net profit, which is almost equal to the figure for the first nine months of 2024, with revenue growing by 27.3% to UAH 236.5 million.
The wife of the patient who died after a Russian drone hit the building of the Medikom clinic (Kyiv), Natalia Smashna, will demand compensation from the clinic, accusing it of negligence that led to the death of her husband.
“My husband was at the Medikom clinic, where he was battling pneumonia. He entrusted his life to the doctors who were supposed to treat him. That night, the doctors should have at least woken my husband and offered to take him to the shelter, but they did not. They were negligent, and in a single moment, that negligence ended his life,” she said at a news conference at Interfax-Ukraine on Friday.
Smashna emphasized that clinic staff “should escort people to shelters.”
“You didn’t even give my husband a chance to survive. He didn’t even know there was danger. He just burned alive. My husband died, but it could have been avoided if he had been woken and taken to the shelter,” she said.
Meanwhile, Oleksiy Shevchuk, a partner at the Barristers law firm, said that Smashna had approached the clinic to request compensation for the costs related to her late husband’s burial.
“She is alone now; her husband is gone. She told the clinic: help cover the burial expenses so we could lay my husband to rest properly and honor him. She buried him herself. She asked for compensation, and they refused,” he said.
Shevchuk said, “If I were the clinic, knowing the tragedy this woman endured—and that it happened on the clinic’s premises—I would have personally found her and helped her get through the grief, rather than sitting abroad as one of the clinic’s owners.”
“We will find him. We will raise the question of why the owner of Medikom, who is abroad, is evading mobilization. We will find everyone involved in trampling on her dignity. She only asked for help with compensation so her child could at least attend kindergarten next year. She has no means to live right now,” he said.
Shevchuk added that the police in Kyiv’s Obolon district have not yet opened a case to investigate the clinic’s negligence following Smashna’s complaint.
Meanwhile, Barristers partner Yuriy Radzievsky said that “the staff at Medikom clinic apparently failed to fulfill their obligations to their patients.”
“We spoke with other patients who were in the Medikom clinic that night. No one woke them, no one warned them about the alarm, and no one escorted them to the shelter. The staff fled and abandoned their patients,” he said.
Radzievsky emphasized that if Medikom clinic “does not see any responsibility for what happened, we will prove it in court.”
“In court, we will present all the evidence, call witnesses who will testify that no one warned about the alarm, no one told patients to go to the shelter, and no one even showed where the shelter was located. We will prove that Medikom clinic must take responsibility and resolve all issues for the family of the person who died due to the clinic’s negligence,” he said.
“All documents and statements are already prepared and will be submitted to the competent authorities in the near future,” he said.
According to reports, on the night of January 5, the inpatient facility of Medikom clinic at 9 Obolonska Embankment suffered significant damage from a drone strike, killing a patient. The strike occurred at 2:40. At the time of the attack, 26 patients were in the facility. All the affected patients were evacuated to other medical centers.
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