Naftogaz Group increased electricity imports from Europe this week based on a government decision and with the aim of stabilizing the situation in the energy system, said Sergey Koretsky, chairman of the board of Naftogaz of Ukraine.
“The volume of imported electricity already covers more than 50% of the needs of all the Group’s enterprises, as provided for by the government’s resolution,” he said in a Facebook post on Saturday.
Koretsky explained that the corresponding amount of electricity has been allocated for the needs of domestic consumers.
“We are coordinating our actions with the government in order to stabilize the situation in the energy system as quickly as possible after the Russian shelling,” the chairman of the board of Naftogaz emphasized.
As reported, amid the deteriorating situation in Ukraine’s energy system due to massive Russian shelling of energy infrastructure, the government has instructed state-owned companies to increase electricity imports.
During the “Question Time to the Government” in the Verkhovna Rada on January 16, First Deputy Prime Minister of Energy Denys Shmyhal pointed out that, on behalf of the government, Naftogaz of Ukraine, Ukrzaliznytsia, and part of the industrial complex will import at least 50% of their electricity needs.
“This will make it possible to free up 1.5 MW for people’s needs. I hope this will happen in the coming days,” Shmyhal said at the time.
The document on security guarantees from the US is 100% ready, and Ukraine is waiting for its partners to confirm the date and place of signing, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
“For us, a security guarantee is, first and foremost, a bilateral security guarantee from the United States of America. The document is 100% ready, we are waiting for our partners to be ready to provide a venue for us to sign it, and then the document will go for ratification in the US Congress and the Ukrainian parliament,” Zelensky said during a press conference in Vilnius on Sunday.
On December 23, Zelensky announced that the agreement on security guarantees from the US was ready for signing, and that the date and place of signing depended on US President Donald Trump.
“It’s up to him. We are ready to sign these documents, which are so important to us. I emphasize once again that we are confident that these are historic documents,” Zelensky said during a conversation with journalists.
The development of industrial parks in Ukraine in 2026 will include several key areas that have begun to take shape over the past three years, in particular, steady growth in the number of both registered and operating industrial parks (up to 30 registered per year, 15-20 operating), according to Valery Kirilko, CEO of the Industrial Parks of Ukraine group of companies.
As noted in the final report on the development of industrial parks provided by Kirilko, they will develop in the direction of greater specialization, innovation, and environmental friendliness.
“State support, attracting foreign investors, and developing infrastructure will make it possible to create powerful industrial clusters that will become the driving force behind the country’s economic recovery and growth,” the report says.
The report notes that at the end of 2025, there were 118 industrial parks registered in the register of industrial parks in Ukraine (in January 2026, seven parks were excluded, so now there are 111).
At the same time, during the period of wartime from 2022 to 2025, 80 IPs were registered, which is almost 70% of the total number. Last year, 27 parks were registered and eight were excluded from the register.
As reported, by the end of 2025, 37 industrial enterprises had been built or were under construction in IPs, of which 22 plants had been built and another 15 were under construction. These are enterprises in the fields of agro-processing, food production, furniture and woodworking, and mechanical engineering.
According to data provided by Kirilko, Kyiv region became the leader in terms of the number of registrations – four IPs, Zhytomyr, Odesa, and Khmelnytskyi regions have three each, and Vinnytsia, Zakarpattia, and Lviv regions have two each. Eight more regions registered one industrial park each.
“We would like to note the appearance of the first industrial park registered in the Kirovohrad region,” the article notes.
Overall, the leader in terms of the number of registered IPs is the Lviv region, which currently has 20 parks registered, followed by the Kyiv region with 15, and the Zakarpattia region with 12.
“The largest increase during the war was also demonstrated by the Lviv region with 12 parks, the Zakarpattia region with 11, and the Kyiv region with eight parks. There are still no industrial parks in three regions: Kharkiv, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia,” the report says.
Among the initiators in 2025, there were more private initiators (19) than municipal ones (8).
“Among municipal parks, it is worth noting the emergence of a new type of synergy in the creation of parks, the so-called combined industrial parks. These are municipal IPs that are created by a municipal initiator for a specific investor, who then enters as a management company and begins to develop it as an attracted developer or production “anchor” operator. Of the eight municipal parks, at least three were created on this principle,” the material notes.
The largest number of specialized industrial parks are associated with the industrial agricultural sector and food production, followed by the production of building materials, and separately among them, the production of metal structures.
“Next comes warehouse real estate, although this is not a sign of IP, but many parks have recently been registered as transshipment and storage bases with an additional industrial block. And then there are mixed parks that do not have any specialization,” the report notes.
A separate type of participant has also emerged that meets the requirements of the times: energy companies operating solar power plants, gas piston power plants, plants that convert waste into electricity and biogas, energy storage operators, and other combinations of such participants.
“In this regard, questions and problems arise when it is planned to place such electricity operators on industrial land. But gradually, practical cases are adapting the conditions for the implementation of such projects within industrial parks,” experts note.
The article reminds us that the total amount of state incentives for industrial parks in 2025 was UAH 900.681 million, and more than UAH 4 billion was financed by private business – 98% of these investments were of Ukrainian origin.
“Unfortunately, the opportunities for attracting international grants or technical assistance programs for the development of IP infrastructure are currently limited. The main reason is that international organizations and donors are focused on supporting specific enterprises or residents that already operate or plan to operate in the parks, rather than financing infrastructure projects such as communications, road construction, or railway branches,” the article states.
In addition, infrastructure investments are risky for MFIs because they have no guarantee of return.
“The only known case is the Riasne-2/M-10 Lviv Industrial Park in Lviv, which is managed by Dragon Capital. They received a loan from the EBRD for more than $24.5 million, insured against military risks by MIGA. However, these funds were used not only for infrastructure, but also for the construction of facilities for residents,” the article says.
Experts also note that today there are three main types of industrial park initiators: industrial (a private initiator creates an industrial park for its own production projects); municipal (community in the form of a local council, municipality); developer (private owner or tenant of a land plot or industrial zone).
At the same time, they note a sharp increase in private parks in relation to municipal ones—if until 2022, municipal parks accounted for about 80% of the total number, then over the past three years, the share of registered municipal parks has been 35%, and private ones, respectively, 65%.
Among the trends in the development of IPs this year, experts also mention an increasing shift from quantity to quality, increased government support and incentives, active attraction of foreign investors, and environmental friendliness.
In addition, they believe that IPs are increasingly focused on creating technology clusters, and industrial clusters, where residents complement each other, will become more widespread.
An increase in the number of network management companies specializing in IP development is also expected, and foreign management companies, especially from Europe and Asia, will begin to enter the Ukrainian market more actively.
Another important step will be the creation of the All-Ukrainian Association of Industrial Parks, and development companies will become increasingly interested in industrial parks.
Poultry meat exports from Ukraine in 2025 decreased by 1.8% to 458,100 tons, while revenue for the year amounted to $1,149.1 million, which is 13.7% more than in 2024, according to the Ukrainian Poultry Association (UPA), citing data from the State Customs Service.
The industry association noted that 18.4 thousand tons of the total export volume accounted for export shipments of finished poultry meat products totaling $58 million.
“The growth in total revenue amid a decline in physical export volumes indicates an increase in the export value of products and favorable price conditions in foreign markets over the past year,” the UPA explained.
The main buyers of Ukrainian poultry meat in 2025 were the Netherlands (17.4%), Saudi Arabia (9.9%), Slovakia (7.6%), and the United Kingdom (11.9%). The share of exports to EU countries in total exports reached 30.6% (139.7 thousand tons). Thus, the countries of the European Union, the Middle East, and the United Kingdom continue to form the basis of external demand for Ukrainian poultry products, the APU emphasized.
The association explained the growth in export revenues, despite a slight decrease in physical export volumes, by an increase in average export prices and an increase in the share of products with higher added value.
In addition, Ukrainian producers are gradually reorienting exports to solvent markets, which allows them to offset logistics costs and maintain production profitability amid constantly rising production costs, the Poultry Farmers Association noted.
Declining risk appetite in global markets was the main backdrop for cryptocurrencies during the week of January 19-23, 2026. Bitcoin and Ether rolled back after starting the year on high expectations, and the movement was exacerbated by sell-offs by large holders, capital outflows from exchange-traded products, and a wave of forced liquidations of leveraged positions.
According to Investing.com, between January 19 and 23, Bitcoin fell from $92,617.8 to $88,756.7 per coin, or approximately 4.2% over the week. The range of fluctuations was wide: during the week, the price rose to $93,386.9 and fell to $87,285.1.
Ether lost about 8.7% over the same period: from $3,190.04 to $2,911.44. The intraday range for ETH was even more volatile, with a low of about $2,867.81 and a high of about $3,284.03.
Geopolitical and trade risks were the key triggers for the sell-off. The market discussed the threat of tariffs and the sharp rhetoric surrounding Greenland, which compounded the turbulence in debt markets, including in Japan. CoinDesk linked the fall of BTC below $90,000 to a combination of sell-offs in risky assets and deteriorating sentiment amid the tariff agenda.
The second reason is market mechanics. Volatility accelerated liquidations in futures and margin positions, while institutional demand appeared less resilient. MarketWatch, citing market participants, wrote that since the beginning of the week, there had been about $500 million in outflows from US spot ETFs on Bitcoin, and the volume of liquidations on Bitcoin futures exceeded $700 million.
It is worth noting the contrast between capital flow data and actual price dynamics. CoinShares reported that in the week ending January 16, crypto investment products attracted $2.17 billion, with sentiment deteriorating at the very end of the week due to geopolitics and tariff threats. This report was released on January 19 and became an important marker: money was coming in, but the market was sensitive to sudden changes in the news background.
By midweek, volatility had partially subsided after signals of softening rhetoric. Reuters reported that global markets reacted with rising stocks and a weaker dollar after Trump publicly backed away from some of his threats regarding tariffs and Greenland. In the crypto market, this led to stabilization rather than a full-fledged trend reversal.
What market participants will be watching first and foremost: the continuation or fading of the tariff agenda, the dynamics of flows in ETFs/ETPs, and the Fed’s decision — the next FOMC meeting is scheduled for January 27-28.
Source: https://www.fixygen.ua/news/20260124/pidsumok-tizhnya-dlya-kriptovalyut-analiz-fixygen.html
Housing sales in Turkey in December 2025 increased by 19.8% compared to December 2024, reaching 254,777 transactions, according to data from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) reported by Turkish media.
At the end of 2025, the Turkish housing market showed growth of 14.3% to a record 1.69 million transactions; at the same time, mortgage sales for the year increased by 49.3% to 236,668.
Sales to foreigners in 2025 decreased by 9.4% to 21,534 properties (1.3% of all transactions). In December, foreigners purchased 2,541 properties, with Istanbul, Antalya, and Mersin leading the provinces at the end of the year.
As previously reported by the Open4Business portal, Ukrainians ranked third in terms of home purchases in Turkey. Overall, at the end of 2025, sales of housing to foreigners in Turkey decreased by 9.4% to 21,534 properties. Among foreign buyers, citizens of the Russian Federation led the way for the year (3,649 properties), followed by Iran (1,878) and Ukraine (1,541).
