In 2025, Express Insurance collected UAH 1.257 billion in insurance premiums, which is 34.8% more than in 2024.
According to the insurer’s website, auto insurance products traditionally accounted for the largest share of annual premiums.
Thus, the volume of premiums under CASCO contracts in 2025 increased by 12.9% and amounted to UAH 817.1 million, reflecting stable demand for comprehensive vehicle protection programs. Premiums for compulsory motor third-party liability insurance increased by 125.4% to UAH 415.6 million.
Express Insurance LLC was founded in 2008 with the participation of the leader of the Ukrainian automotive market, UkrAuto Group. It specializes in auto insurance.
The company is represented in more than 60 points of sale throughout Ukraine and is actively expanding its network of partner service stations. Today, the number of service station partners exceeds 100.
Hungary has decided to block the allocation of a EUR90 billion EU loan to Ukraine until oil transit to Hungary via the Druzhba pipeline is resumed, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said.
On Friday evening, he again accused Ukraine on social media of allegedly blackmailing Hungary by stopping oil transit in coordination with Brussels and the Hungarian opposition in order to create supply disruptions in Hungary and raise fuel prices ahead of the elections.
According to Szijjártó, Ukraine is violating the Association Agreement with the EU.
As reported with reference to Ukrtransnafta, as a result of a targeted Russian attack on January 27, significant damage was caused to the technological and auxiliary equipment of the Druzhba oil pipeline.
“Currently, work is underway at various stages to detect defects, stabilize the technical condition of the system, and eliminate the consequences of the hostile attack. Emergency repair work is being carried out with the involvement of specialized technical units and specialized equipment,” the company said in an official comment to Interfax-Ukraine on February 19.
Hungary and Slovakia stopped supplying diesel fuel to Ukraine on February 18 until the transit of Russian oil through the Druzhba pipeline is restored.
The European Commission, in turn, convened a meeting of the oil coordination group on February 25 in connection with the suspension of supplies to Hungary and Slovakia due to Russia’s damage to the Druzhba oil pipeline.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has announced his intention to stop emergency electricity supplies to Ukraine if Ukraine does not resume oil supplies on Monday, February 23, which were interrupted after an accident on the Druzhba oil pipeline near the Ukrainian city of Brody in the Lviv region in January.
“If the Ukrainian president does not resume oil supplies to Slovakia on Monday, then on the same day I will ask the relevant Slovak companies to stop emergency electricity supplies to Ukraine,” Fico wrote on Twitter.
He also accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of allegedly “refusing to understand our peacemaking approach” and therefore, according to Fico, “behaving maliciously towards Slovakia,” which he believes treats Slovakia “as an enemy country.”
“First, he stopped gas supplies to Slovakia, causing us losses of €500 million a year. Now he has stopped oil supplies, causing us further losses and logistical difficulties. If the West does not object to the Nord Stream gas pipeline being blown up, Slovakia cannot view Slovak-Ukrainian relations as a one-way ticket that is only beneficial to Ukraine,” the Slovak prime minister wrote.
Fico added that he is a “proud and sovereign Slovak” and intends to ask the state-owned joint-stock company SEPS to stop emergency electricity supplies to Ukraine. “In January 2026 alone, these emergency supplies, necessary to stabilize the Ukrainian power grid, were twice as much as in the whole of 2025,” he said.
The head of the Slovak government also stressed that Slovakia has been helping Ukraine since the beginning of the war. “About 180,000 Ukrainians are currently on our territory, we are providing humanitarian aid and organizing joint government meetings. We are doing much more for Ukraine than some other countries,” Fico wrote.
As reported, on February 18, the export of diesel fuel from Hungary to Ukraine was suspended until the resumption of Russian crude oil transit through the Druzhba pipeline, said Hungarian State Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Relations Zoltán Kovács. In his opinion, Ukraine “unilaterally stopped supplies on January 27 for purely political reasons, although technically their resumption is possible.” Statements about the suspension of diesel exports to Ukraine also came from the Slovak side.
Earlier, Hungary and Slovakia asked Croatia to allow Russian oil to be supplied to Hungary and Slovakia via the Adria pipeline. Meanwhile, Slovakia has declared a state of emergency in the oil industry due to the lack of oil supplies.
Croatian Economy Minister Ante Šušnjar, in turn, said that the Adria pipeline is ready for operation, but that there are no technical justifications for any EU country to remain tied to Russian crude oil. “A barrel bought from Russia may seem cheaper for some countries, but it helps finance the war and attacks on the Ukrainian people,” he said.
The transport of Russian crude oil through Ukraine via the Druzhba pipeline has been halted since the end of last month due to large-scale Russian attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
According to Fixygen, Poltava Assembly and Preparation Plant JSC plans to hold a general meeting of shareholders on March 13, 2026.
Key voting topics include annual corporate governance issues: review and approval of annual results, financial statements, as well as decisions on the distribution of operating results and possible approval of significant transactions.
Poltava Assembly and Fabrication Plant JSC is a Poltava-based company operating in the field of fabrication and assembly work/production services for industry.
assembly and fabrication plant, POLTAVA, shareholders' meeting
Metinvest Group, together with Rinat Akhmetov’s charitable project Heart of Azovstal, will continue to support the defenders of Mariupol until the last of them returns home from captivity, said the company’s Chief Operating Officer Alexander Mironenko at the conference Heart of Azovstal. Growing Together in Kyiv.
“We are strengthening veteran programs and creating new opportunities for education and professional development. Because veterans are a force that will help rebuild Ukrainian industry and the country after the war,” said Mironenko, whose words are quoted in a press release.
According to him, in three years of operation, this project, which is part of the Steel Front military initiative, has supported more than 8,000 defenders of Mariupol. They received more than 28,000 types of assistance: physical and psychological rehabilitation, prosthetics, their own apartments (for defenders with I and II disability groups), support in obtaining education and employment, etc.
It is noted that at the end of 2025, Akhmetov decided to continue the project for another year and allocated an additional UAH 600 million for its financing, bringing the total amount of aid over four years to UAH 2.2 billion.
This year, the Azovstal Hearts program will continue to support Mariupol defenders returning from captivity. It is planned to provide another 100 apartments to defenders with I-II disability groups under the At Home program — a total of 400 defenders will receive apartments over four years.
The report also notes that the post-traumatic growth methodology will be extended to the national level, and pilot training for communities working with veterans will be conducted in Bucha and Kamensk.
For its part, Metinvest is creating conditions for war veterans, including defenders of Mariupol, to integrate into enterprise teams, receive training, and build careers, as well as veteran communities and public associations where they can receive support. More than a thousand war veterans currently work at the group’s enterprises.
Metinvest is a vertically integrated group of mining and metallurgical enterprises. Its enterprises are located in Ukraine – in the Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Dnipropetrovsk regions – as well as in European countries. The main shareholders of the holding are SCM Group (71.24%) and Smart Steel Limited (23.76%). Metinvest Holding LLC is the managing company of the Metinvest Group.
