The dispute over Greenland has overshadowed plans to use the Davos week to reach agreements between the US, Ukraine, and European countries on security guarantees and reconstruction of Ukraine, Axios reports.
“A Ukrainian official said that the plan for leaders to sign the ‘prosperity plan’ had been canceled. An American official denied that any date had been set and said that the plan still needed to be finalized,” the report said.
It is noted that Trump still plans to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and several European leaders, but the US official said that no breakthroughs should be expected.
Imports of lead and lead products to Ukraine in 2025 increased 3.3 times to $7.801 million.
In contrast, lead exports decreased by 17.8% to $9.377 million.
In December, imports amounted to $478,000, while exports amounted to $466,000.
Imports have been growing for the second year in a row: in 2024, they increased 2.4 times.
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.
Imports of trucks to Ukraine in 2025 grew by 5.5% in monetary terms compared to 2024, reaching $999.5 million, according to statistics from the State Customs Service.
According to the published data, the growth rate of imports of this type of vehicle slowed down somewhat at the end of the year, reaching 7.5% over the 11 months compared to the same period in 2024.
At the same time, in December, truck imports decreased by 9% compared to December 2024, to $102.3 million.
Most trucks in 2025 were imported from France – $169.2 million (42.8% more than last year), Poland – $162.7 million (14.7% less), and the United States – $109 million (2% more). Last year, Poland led this trio.
Imports of trucks from all other countries increased by 4.6% over the year, amounting to $558.5 million.
At the same time, according to statistics, Ukraine exported only $6.6 million worth of trucks last year, mainly to Turkey (66.2% of exports), Romania, and Moldova, and a year earlier, exports were even more insignificant ($4.1 million), mainly to Moldova, Turkey, and Poland.
As reported, in 2024, imports of trucks to Ukraine in monetary terms increased by 30% compared to 2023, to $947.84 million, with most of them imported from Poland (almost 20%).
The elevators of the Zakhidny Bug group of companies received over 320,000 tons of grain in 2025, according to a Facebook post by the agricultural holding’s press service.
According to the report, the Zakhidny Bug seed plant produced over 13,000 tons of seeds in 2025.
In total, the group’s fields harvested 82,700 tons of winter wheat, 77,500 tons of corn, 26,700 tons of barley, 70,000 tons of soybeans, and 22,300 tons of rapeseed in 2025. The company also harvested hard wheat varieties: 18,200 tons of winter wheat and 3,450 tons of spring wheat.
PP “Zakhidny Bug” was founded in 2003 and specializes in growing grain and industrial crops. It owns a land bank of 65,000 hectares in the Lviv, Chernivtsi, Ternopil, and Volyn regions.
The company is building Ukraine’s first mill to process durum wheat, as well as a pasta factory. The projected capacity of the first stage of the mill is 80 tons per day for durum wheat and 150 tons per day for soft wheat varieties. The second stage will increase the capacity by another 200 tons for durum wheat and 300 tons for soft varieties. The total investment in the project is UAH 1 billion.
The beneficiaries of the enterprise are Oksana Drul (30%), Valery Ovcharuk (30%), and Yuriy Gladun (30%).
Imports of zinc and zinc products to Ukraine in 2025 decreased by 9.6% to $52.982 million.
Zinc exports, despite their small volumes, showed a sharp jump to $1.234 million (in 2024, they amounted to $563,000).
In December, imports amounted to $4.392 million, while exports amounted to $68 thousand. The trend has changed: in 2024, the country increased zinc imports by 27.5%.
Pure metallic zinc is used to recover precious metals, protect steel from corrosion, and for other purposes.
The Ukrainian labor market showed recovery and growth in key indicators in 2025, as companies posted 818,400 unique vacancies during the year, while in December 2024, the number of active vacancies was 88,900, according to the final study of the labor market in 2025 by Work.ua.
According to the published data, in regional terms, a third of all vacancies in 2025 were in Kyiv and the Kyiv region. Another 9% of job offers were posted in the Lviv region, and 8% in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
The greatest demand among employers remained for workers in blue-collar professions and in manufacturing and services, each of which accounted for 10% of vacancies. The share of retail trade, sales and procurement, as well as logistics, warehousing and foreign economic activity, was 7% each.
Among employers, the largest number of vacancies in 2025 was posted by the Aurora multi-market, with 6,900 job offers. EVA offered 6,400 vacancies, Fora offered 5,500, Nova Poshta offered 4,100, Novus offered nearly 3,700, Silpo offered 3,500, ATB Market and Foxtrot offered about 3,300, Ukrposhta offered 3,100, and MHP offered 2,800.
Work.ua emphasizes that job seekers’ activity remained at a record high. In 2025, users of the portal sent more than 16.5 million responses to job vacancies, which averaged 31 responses per minute. A third of all responses were for remote work, while the share of remote vacancies on the market was only 7%. The most responses were received for vacancies in sales and procurement with a share of 12%, IT – 8%, middle management administrative positions – 8%, marketing – 7%, and service, secretarial, and retail positions – 6% each.
The most competitive position of the year was direct manager: the number of responses in one day reached 676, with a proposed salary of 20-28 thousand UAH.
In 2025, the average salary among vacancies on Work.ua increased by 22% to 27.5 thousand UAH. The largest increase was recorded in the Donetsk region, at 55%, which is associated with a change in the structure of vacancies. There was also a significant increase in salaries in the Ternopil region, at 25%, to UAH 25,000, in the Kyiv region, at 23%, to UAH 32,000, Rivne, Khmelnytskyi, and Cherkasy regions – by 20%, to UAH 24,000, Kharkiv region – by 19%, to UAH 25,000, Lviv region – by 17%, to UAH 28,000, and Sumy region – by 17%, to UAH 21,000. The only region where the average salary decreased was Kherson, by 2% to UAH 24,000, with only 1,000 vacancies posted in the region during the year.
In terms of professions, the highest salary growth was recorded in the categories of real estate, culture, and show business, by approximately one-third. Salaries increased by 25% in blue-collar professions and manufacturing, telecommunications and communications, by 23% in the hotel and restaurant business, by 22% in logistics, by 21% in the media and IT, and by 21% in construction. The smallest increases were observed in law (9%), medicine and pharmaceuticals (8%), education and science (5%), while salaries in the security and safety category remained unchanged.
At the same time, it is noted that for some IT managers, media buyers, luxury real estate sales managers, and security service managers, some employers offered salaries of over UAH 0.5 million.
