Nova Poshta, the leader in express delivery in Ukraine and part of the NOVA group, plans to develop cashback in its “Bonus Delivery” loyalty program in 2026, which can be used to reduce the cost of delivery or even send parcels for free, according to Yevgen Krechetovich, head of customer development.
According to him, there are also plans to increase customer awareness and use of the program by 50% and focus on launching new gamified mechanics.
Nova Poshta noted that the number of participants in the program already exceeds 10 million, and more than 500 businesses have joined the partner network.
It is noted that every month, the company’s users use more than 500,000 promo codes from program partners.
“A separate area of development has been the connection of offline partners at the request of the customers themselves. Gas stations, medical laboratories, restaurants, cinemas, and other services of daily demand have joined the program,” Nova Poshta noted.
As reported, in 2025, Nova Poshta increased its revenue by 21% compared to 2024, to more than UAH 54 billion, and its profit amounted to UAH 2.6 billion compared to UAH 2.5 billion a year earlier. The number of parcels and cargo delivered in 2025 increased by 7.4% – from 486 million to 522 million, including international deliveries – by 52.6%, from 19 million to 29 million.
The main activity of Nova Poshta is express delivery of documents, parcels, and palletized large-sized cargo. Its ultimate beneficial owners are Volodymyr Poperechnyuk and Vyacheslav Klimov.
The average pension in Ukraine is currently UAH 6,544, according to the Pension Fund of Ukraine. The payment increased by 13% over the year. Every fifth Ukrainian pensioner receives an average pension of about 4,500 UAH. 63,000 pensioners receive payments below the subsistence level, and 261,000 receive payments at the level of UAH 2,361. In total, there are more than 10.1 million pensioners in Ukraine this year, and almost 73% of them receive an old-age pension.
There are currently 10.17 million pensioners in Ukraine. The vast majority – 73% of pensioners – receive old-age payments: 7.4 million Ukrainians. Another 1.5 million citizens (15%) live on a disability pension, about 700,000 or 7% receive a survivor’s benefit, and 5% or 500,000 have a long service pension. Social pensions and lifetime pensions for judges make up less than 1%.
The average pension in Ukraine is currently UAH 6,544. The payment increased by 13% over the year. However, not everyone has such pensions: more than a third of pensioners receive about UAH 3,250. It is worth noting that the share of such pensioners decreased from 44% to 35% over the year.
Another 15% of pensioners – more than 1.5 million people – receive payments of more than UAH 10,000, and the average pension in this group reaches UAH 16,000. Another 30% of Ukrainians on pensions live on an average of UAH 6,860, and one in five receives about UAH 4.5 thousand per month.
At the same time, 63 thousand pensioners receive a pension below the subsistence level, and 261 thousand Ukrainians live on this minimum: UAH 2,361.
Most pensioners live in Dnipropetrovs’k region – 867 thousand, followed by Kyiv (746 thousand), Kharkiv (687 thousand) and Lviv (665 thousand) regions. The lowest number of pensioners is registered in Kherson (202 thousand) and Chernivtsi (203 thousand) regions.
The amount of payments also differs: the highest average pensions are traditionally in the capital – almost UAH 9 thousand, the lowest – in Ternopil region: about UAH 5 thousand. Although pensions grew by 13% across the country, in some regions the growth was much more significant, such as Rivne (+24%) and Volyn (+20%).
The majority of pensioners – over 82% – receive payments through banks, most often through PrivatBank and Oschadbank. At the same time, pensions are not the only source of income for many: one in four pensioners in Ukraine continues to work.
There are 2.8 million such people, and their average pension is UAH 7,160. As of January 28, UAH 3,250 is about 63 euros at the NBU exchange rate.
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Cucumber exports from Ukraine grew by 19.7% in 2025 compared to 2024, reaching 3.76 thousand tons, according to statistics from the State Customs Service.
Poland (54.5% of exports in monetary terms), Estonia (36.4%), and Moldova (7.5%) were the most active buyers of Ukrainian cucumbers in 2025.
A year earlier, the top three were the same, but with a different distribution of shares: Estonia (50.6%), Poland (32.6%), and Moldova (9.3%).
Non-resident investments in Bulgarian real estate in January-November 2025 resulted in a net outflow of €18.6 million, while Russia recorded a net outflow of €19.9 million, according to data from the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB).
According to BNB data, a year earlier (January-November 2024), the net outflow of non-resident investments in real estate was estimated at €11.6 million.
The net outflow indicator means that non-residents’ payments under real estate agreements in the country during the period under review were lower than receipts, i.e., sales exceeded purchases in value terms. At the same time, the fact that the total indicator for all non-residents (-€18.6 million) was less than the outflow for the Russian Federation (-€19.9 million) formally indicates a small aggregate net inflow of investment in real estate from other countries (about €1.3 million).
The BNB report, which is referenced by the media, does not provide a separate breakdown by other countries (including Ukraine) in terms of non-resident investment in real estate—only Russia is highlighted separately.
Tomato exports from Ukraine amounted to 553 tons in 2025, which is 31.2% less than in 2024, according to data from the State Customs Service.
In 2025, the main buyers of Ukrainian tomatoes were Moldova (61.5% in monetary terms), Poland (34.1%), and Romania (1.1%). In 2024, Moldova was also the largest buyer, accounting for 86% of exports.
France intends to make Visio the single video communication platform for all ministries and government agencies by 2027, gradually phasing out the use of non-European solutions, including Microsoft Teams and Zoom, according to a statement on the government’s digital development strategy website.
David Amiel, Minister Delegate for Civil Service and State Reform, said the goal of the transition is to “end the use of non-European solutions” and ensure the security and confidentiality of public electronic communications through a “sovereign tool.”
According to the report, Visio was developed by the Interministerial Directorate for Digital Technologies (DINUM) and already has about 40,000 regular users, with deployment continuing to reach 200,000 employees. Among the first organizations to switch to Visio in the first quarter of 2026 are the CNRS, Assurance Maladie, the DGFIP tax service, and the Ministry of the Armed Forces. The CNRS plans to replace its Zoom licenses by the end of March.
It is noted that the solution is being implemented with the support of ANSSI, hosted on the Outscale cloud infrastructure (Dassault Systèmes group), certified by SecNumCloud, and includes AI features—in particular, transcription using technology from French startup Pyannote, as well as real-time subtitling based on Kyutai’s developments, planned for summer 2026.
