In Kyiv, barriers have been removed and free access has been granted to the coastal area of the elite River Stone complex at 14 Dniprovska Embankment (Darnitsky district). According to the Kyiv City Prosecutor’s Office, the Supreme Court has settled the dispute and ruled that restricting access to the Dnieper was illegal; the area of over 2,300 square meters has been returned to public use.
According to the agency, the developer had previously fenced off the coastline with barriers and gates, allowing access only to residents of the complex. Following the court ruling, the structures were dismantled and the passageway was opened to all Kyiv residents and visitors to the city.
The city authorities and the prosecutor’s office emphasize that the coastal zone is public space, and any attempts to block access to the water without legal grounds will be challenged in court.
The growing number of development partners and system integrators around cloud providers allows for faster launch of complex and large-scale projects in the Ukrainian market. This conclusion is given in his column for Interfax-Ukraine by Volodymyr Bjelov, Country Director of GigaCloud.
According to him, it is the “partner model” that helps to close the lack of expertise and speeds up the path from pilot project to commercial operation.
GigaCloud is a Ukrainian cloud provider (part of GigaGroup), founded in 2016. The company provides IaaS/PaaS services, virtual data centers, redundancy and continuity solutions (DR/BCP) and GPU clouds. The infrastructure is located in data centers in Ukraine and the EU (Kiev, Lviv, Warsaw) with TIER III/IV compliance; the provider has VMware Cloud Service Provider (Premier) status and is registered in CSA STAR Registry, portfolio – over 1.5 thousand customers.
In January-June 2025, the insurance company Ukrainian Insurance Group (UIG, Kyiv) collected UAH 1.932 billion in gross premiums, which is 37.14% more than in the same period last year, with net premiums amounting to UAH 1.738 billion (+51.54%).
This was reported on the website of the rating agency Standard-Rating, which confirmed the insurance company’s financial stability/credit rating at “uaAA+” based on the results of the reporting period.
At the same time, income from individuals during this period increased by 64.20% to UAH 1.188 billion, while income from reinsurers decreased by 25.78% to UAH 3.158 million. At the end of the first half of 2025, individuals accounted for 61.51% of the company’s gross premiums, while reinsurers accounted for 0.16%.
Insurance payments sent to reinsurers in the first half of 2025 decreased by 25.99% to UAH 193.735 million compared to the same period last year. Thus, the share of reinsurance companies in insurance premiums decreased by 8.55 percentage points (pp) to 10.03%.
The volume of insurance payments and reimbursements made by the USG in the first half of 2025 amounted to UAH 900.708 million, which is 50.41% higher than in January-June 2024. Thus, the level of payments increased by 4.12 p.p. to 46.62%.
The company’s operating profit for the reporting period fell to UAH 19.601 million (-46.99%), while net profit decreased to UAH 85.324 million (-9.5%).
As of July 1, 2025, the insurance company’s assets increased by 16.44% to UAH 3.480 billion, and its equity capital by 13.62% to UAH 707.466 million. Liabilities showed an increase of 17.18% and rose to UAH 2.773 billion, while cash and cash equivalents grew by 82.80% to UAH 423.46 million.
RA notes that at the beginning of the third quarter of 2025, the company had a satisfactory level of capitalization (25.52%), and cash covered 15.27% of its liabilities. The insurer formed a portfolio of financial investments worth UAH 1.891 billion, consisting of government bonds and government bonds with a fixed coupon (81.37% of the portfolio) and deposits in banks with high credit ratings (18.63%). As of July 1, 2025, liquid assets covered 83.47% of the insurer’s liabilities.
As reported, the controlling shareholder of IC USG is the Vienna Insurance Group, an international insurance group headquartered in Austria, which is represented by 50 companies in 30 countries and is the leader in the insurance market of Central and Eastern Europe.
Imports of tin and tin products rose by 52.2% to $2.338 million (in July – $410,000), while exports of tin and tin products in the first seven months of 2025 amounted to $101,000 (July – $16,000) compared to $331,000 in the first seven months of 2024.
Tin is mainly used as a safe, non-toxic, corrosion-resistant coating in its pure form or in alloys with other metals. The main industrial applications of tin are in white tin (tin-plated iron) for the manufacture of food containers, in solders for electronics, in domestic piping, in bearing alloys, and in coatings made of tin and its alloys. The most important alloy of tin is bronze (with copper).
Ukraine increased imports of lead and lead products by 7.7 times to $4.723 million (in July – $718 thousand), while exports of lead and lead products decreased by 15.6% to $5.482 million (in July – $1.022 million).
Lead is currently mainly used in the production of lead-acid batteries for the automotive industry. In addition, lead is used in the manufacture of bullets and certain alloys.
Ukrainian businessman Pyotr Dyminsky, who was a suspect in a 2017 fatal car accident in the Lviv region, was granted Serbian citizenship in November 2017, three months after the accident.
This was reported in a joint investigation by OCCRP and the Serbian project KRIK. The Serbian Interior Ministry told journalists that the decision was made “in the interests of the state,” without providing further explanation, KRIK reported.
According to the investigation, two months after the accident, Dyminsky purchased a duplex in the Athens suburb of Voula for €280,000, which gave him a “golden visa” and a five-year residence permit in Greece. In November 2017, he also received a Serbian passport; in 2020, his wife Elena received Serbian citizenship.
Interpol, as noted by journalists, removed the “blue notice” and repeatedly refused Ukraine’s request to issue a “red notice” for the businessman.
Investigators also note the financial ties between the Dyminsky family and Serbian defense exports: Ablemark Limited (Cyprus),
controlled by the businessman’s wife, issued an interest-free loan of €2.6 million in February 2020 to the Cypriot company Jikinto Limited, which soon received its first arms export licenses in Serbia and, by the end of the year, sold more than €10.3 million worth of Serbian weapons to the Ugandan Ministry of Defense.
Journalists were unable to identify the ultimate beneficiary of Jikinto.
In Ukraine, before his departure, Dyminsky owned the ZIK media group and the Karpaty football club (Lviv). In June 2019, the ZIK channel was sold to MP Taras Kozak, who was later linked to Viktor Medvedchuk’s media holding; in February 2021, Kozak’s broadcasting assets were blocked by a decision of the National Security and Defense Council.
In May 2020, control of FC Karpaty passed to Oleg Smalychuk, as reported by Ukrainian media and confirmed by the club’s beneficiary data.
Sources: KRIK article “Ukrainian oligarch obtained Serbian citizenship while under investigation” (https://www.krik.rs/ukrajinski-oligarh-dobio-drzavljanstvo-srbije-dok-je-bio-pod-istragom/); OCCRP publication “After Fatal Car Crash, Ukrainian Tycoon Dyminskyy Secured Greek Residency and Serbian Citizenship” (https://www.occrp.org/en/news/after-fleeing-deadly-car-crash-ukrainian-tycoon-dyminskyy-secured-greek-residency-and-serbian-citizenship).
