The Transcarpathian Regional State Administration announced the start of deeper cooperation with Slovakia’s Košice Region in the field of physical culture and sports, in particular regarding the exchange of experience in holding marathons and launching joint sporting events.
According to the Regional State Administration, the prospects for the projects were discussed during a working meeting between the deputy head of the Transcarpathian Regional State Administration, Yuriy Guzynets, and Slovak partners visiting the region. Guzynets noted that the region is developing its sports infrastructure, holding charity runs, and promoting adaptive sports.
According to regional media reports citing the Regional State Administration, a separate topic of discussion was the possibility of holding the first Ukrainian-Slovak marathon. The meetings were also attended by Branislav Koniar, director of the Košice World Marathon, and Heinrich Sasai, Consul General of Slovakia in Uzhhorod.
According to published information, the Transcarpathian Grand Run 2025 series of charity races in 2025 brought together about 3,500 participants and raised almost UAH 13.5 million in support of Ukraine. It is also noted that the charity fund of the Košice Peace Marathon allocated 4,000 euros to Ukraine, which was decided to be used for the development of the sports base of Uzhhorod Lyceum No. 15, where a certificate and part of the equipment have already been transferred.
The Romanian government has announced the acquisition of 100% of the shares of Danube Logistics, the operator of the Giurgiulești International Free Port in the Republic of Moldova, from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
The Moldovan Ministry of Economy has confirmed the legality of the transaction, emphasizing that it concerns only the private port operator and does not affect state-owned land. Final approval of the price is expected on February 11, 2026.
The Romanian side plans to invest more than €24 million in the modernization and development of Giurgiulești’s infrastructure: the goal is to integrate the port into Romania’s logistics network, expand its capacity, and strengthen the region’s role in the Danube and Black Sea transport corridors.
The port of Giurgiulești is located on a short section of Moldova’s access to the Danube, near the border with Romania and Ukraine, and is Moldova’s only port with access to sea and river routes.
The EBRD has previously noted the port’s strategic importance for Moldova’s foreign trade (over 70% of water import and export flows) and its potential as a hub that could be in demand for regional logistics, including future projects to rebuild Ukraine.
In Poland, as part of the charity campaign “Warmth from Poland for Kyiv,” more than PLN 1 million was raised to purchase generators for the Ukrainian capital, according to the Polish publication OKO.press.
According to the organizers, the fundraiser was initiated by the Stand With Ukraine foundation in collaboration with a number of public organizations. Initially, the plan was to raise PLN 1 million to purchase 100 generators, but the goal was achieved within a few hours, after which it was decided to extend the campaign and raise the new target to PLN 2 million. At the time of publication by ZAXID.NET, the amount raised was about 1.1 million zlotys.
Stand With Ukraine Foundation President Natalia Panchenko said that the response from donors reminded her of the wave of support for Ukraine in 2022, emphasizing that solidarity remains stronger than disinformation and attacks on social media.
According to reports, Ukraine’s ambassador to Poland, Vasyl Bodnar, responded to the initiative by expressing his gratitude to the participants in the fundraiser and noting the importance of support in the context of the complicated energy supply situation.
Leading Ukrainian investment company Dragon Capital made investments of nearly $100 million in 2025, but did not manage to complete all of them, Dragon Capital founder Tomas Fiala said.
“Last year, we approached the pre-war level of new investments, which was over $100 million,” he said during a discussion at the Center for Economic Strategy on Friday dedicated to the main trends of the year for the Ukrainian economy.
Fiala noted that in the first two years of the war, the task was to preserve the business, restore it after the fall in 2022, and complete all capital investments that had been started before the war.
“Well, the last two years have been about expanding the business. We can no longer wait to make decisions ‘after the war’; it already takes a long time to wait for the war to end,” explained the head of Dragon Capital.
“And this year, we plan to do even more,” he emphasized.
Fiala noted that the growth plans are linked to the creation of two private equity funds — Rebuild Ukraine Fund (REBUF) and Amber Dragon Ukraine Infrastructure Fund I (in partnership with the British company Amber Infrastructure) — which the company has been actively working on for the past year and a half. The target volumes of these funds are $250 million and $350 million, respectively, and Dragon Capital’s contribution to each of them is $20 million.
The head of the company specified that the first closing of REBUF with a volume of $102.5 million took place on Friday, while the announcement of the first significant closing of Amber Dragon Ukraine Infrastructure Fund I is expected next week.
Fiala added that Dragon Capital, together with Amber Infrastructure, was selected as the winner of the competition to manage the EU Flagship Fund for Reconstruction of Ukraine with a declared volume of EUR 220 million among 12 applicants, four of which made it to the final.
According to him, Dragon Capital is ready to invest EUR40 million of its own funds in this fund, and other investors, as in the two previous funds, are five European IFIs (International Financial Institutions) and DFIs (Development Financial Institutions).
“We are currently in the process of due diligence… We plan to start investing in the middle of next year,” Fiala said. He stressed that none of these funds have restrictions on investments in physical assets.
Regarding the challenges faced by Dragon Capital’s businesses in 2025, the head of the company noted that there was no significant difference from previous years, with security risks remaining in first place.
According to him, more significant risks related to the rule of law were added in the summer, when the company suspended all investments for about three weeks during an attack on anti-corruption agencies.
“It felt like we had returned to the days of Yanukovych and authoritarian rule in the country, and we only resumed investments after the Verkhovna Rada and the president corrected their mistake and waited for the government to appoint the head of the BEB,” Fiala said.
He added that there were also cyberattacks on the company and that there are still challenges with labor resources.
“We estimate that the employee shortage is at 20%, which is about 2 million people.
Salaries are growing by 20-25% per year and are higher in currency terms than they were before the war,” the head of Dragon Capital described the situation.
At the same time, according to him, most businesses are growing faster than inflation, at 10% to 20% or even more, although expenses are also growing rapidly.
“It is difficult for us to maintain the same business margins in our budgets for the 26th year that we had in the last two years, which were basically not bad,” Fiala stated.
The pharmaceutical company PrJSC Darnitsa (Kyiv) has registered a drug in Bosnia and Herzegovina for the treatment and prevention of neuromuscular transmission disorders, including myasthenia gravis, stimulation of the intestines and bladder after surgery, and restoration of muscle activity after anesthesia.
According to a press release from the company, the drug was registered at the end of December.
The registration certificate is valid for five years.
As previously reported, Darnitsa also registered an antifungal drug in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Currently, Darnitsa’s drugs are available in more than 20 countries around the world.
Darnitsa has been operating on the market for over 90 years, is one of the ten largest pharmaceutical manufacturers in Ukraine, and produces 180 brands of drugs in 15 different forms. The strategic areas of portfolio development are cardiology, neurology, and pain management.
The net loss of PJSC “Pharmaceutical Firm ”Darnitsa“” (Kyiv) in January-June 2025 amounted to UAH 479.473 million, while in the same period of 2024, the company received a net profit of UAH 6.528 million. According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs, the ultimate beneficiary of the company is Gleb Zagoriy.
On January 19, 2026, Mirgorodkurort Medical and Health Resorts PJSC will hold an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders in a remote format (the date of the meeting is considered to be the date of completion of voting), according to the company’s announcement in the information disclosure system.
According to the announcement, voting will take place by filling out ballots and sending them through the Ukrainian depository system. Ballots will be accepted until 6:00 p.m. on January 19. The date for compiling the list of shareholders eligible to participate in the meeting is January 14, 2026.
The agenda includes issues related to the election of a member of the supervisory board and the establishment of his remuneration, as well as the approval of the terms of a civil law agreement with a member of the supervisory board and the determination of the person authorized to sign the relevant documents.
PrJSC LOZ Mirgorodkurort (EDRPOU code 02649437) is registered in Mirgorod, Poltava region, and unites the sanatoriums Mirgorod, Poltava, Berezovy Gai, and Khorol.
