A mechanism for confirming exporters as commodity producers, which will allow them to avoid paying the recently introduced 10% duty on exports of soybeans and rapeseed, should be in place by the end of next week, said Deputy Minister of Economy, Environment, and Agriculture of Ukraine Denys Bashlyk.
“It will be as convenient as possible, the software is already 90% ready. The Cabinet of Ministers will make a decision next week,” he said at the Forbes Agro conference in Kyiv on Friday.
Bashlyk noted that there are currently situations where producers export and are forced to pay duties because there is no such confirmation mechanism.
According to him, the confirmation mechanism is planned to be implemented through the state agricultural register so that it does not take too much time, does not require “a million references” and the need to confirm each batch.
As for the duties already paid by commodity producers, the government is preparing amendments to the law on the state budget for 2025, which will allow the return of duties already paid, the deputy minister said.
In general, he noted that the Ministry of Economy is against the abolition of the 10% duty on exports of soybeans and rapeseed.
“We understand the risks that farmers may face, but it should be noted that there is another side to this story — the creation of a separate fund to which the paid duties will be transferred. And so, should the abolition of these so-called soybean amendments be on the agenda today? No, it should not,” Bashlyk said.
Farmers at the Forbes Agro conference criticized the introduction of this duty because, in their opinion, processors at the beginning of the war, due to logistics problems, received high profits at the expense of agricultural producers, and now processing does not require such privileges and should pay the market price for raw materials, competing with importers. According to the speakers, these duties will result in a reduction in rapeseed and soybean crops and a deterioration in crop rotation.
The head of Ukraine’s largest oil producer, Kernel, Yevgen Osipov, canceled his planned interview at the conference, and the founding editor of Forbes Ukraine, Volodymyr Fedorin, who was supposed to conduct the interview, said that Osipov did not like the publication’s article criticizing the duty.
As reported, Law No. 13157, signed by the president on September 2, stipulates that agricultural producers and cooperatives that export their own products will be exempt from paying duties. However, due to the lack of clear rules for documentary confirmation of the origin of goods, the mechanism does not actually work, and the export of oilseeds has been largely blocked.
A number of agricultural associations, including the All-Ukrainian Agrarian Council (VAR), the Ukrainian Agribusiness Club (UAC), the Ukrainian Grain Association (UGA), the Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation, as well as the European Business Association and the American Chamber of Commerce, have appealed to the Cabinet of Ministers and the Verkhovna Rada to repeal the law establishing a 10% duty on exports of soybeans and rapeseed as soon as possible.
On September 19, MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak (Voice faction) registered a corresponding bill No. 14055 on the repeal of the “soybean and rapeseed amendments.”
On Sunday, September 28, Ukraine will remain dry, with only light rain in the northern part during the day and a predominantly northeasterly wind of 5-10 m/s, according to the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Center.
The temperature in the west and north of the country will be 4-9°C at night and 9-14°C during the day, and 2-7°C at night and 13-18°C during the day in the rest of the country.
In Kyiv, there will be no precipitation on the night of September 28, with light rain during the day. The wind will be northeasterly, 5-10 m/s. The temperature at night will be 7-9°C; during the day 10-12°C.
According to data from the Boris Sreznevsky Central Geophysical Observatory, the highest daytime temperature in Kyiv on September 28 was 29.3°C in 1927, and the lowest nighttime temperature was -1.2°C in 1906.
On Monday, September 29, rain is expected in the western, northern, and southern regions, as well as in Vinnytsia and Cherkasy regions, with no precipitation in the rest of the country. The wind will be predominantly easterly, 5-10 m/s.
The nighttime temperature will be 4-9°C; during the day in the west and north of the country, it will be 9-14°C, and in the rest of the territory, 13-18°C. In the highlands of the Carpathians, there will be wet snow; the nighttime temperature will be around 0°C, and during the day, 1-5°C.
In Kyiv on September 29, there will be rain, with an easterly wind of 5-10 m/s, nighttime temperatures of 7-9°C, and daytime temperatures of 10-12°C.
The Yuzhnoukrainsk City Council unanimously supported the project of the National Nuclear Energy Generating Company Energoatom to build a technological complex for the manufacture of fuel assemblies, the company said, citing the decision.
The new production facility will be located in the Yuzhnoukrainsk community. According to Energoatom, the project is of strategic importance for Ukraine’s energy security and provides for:
strengthening the country’s energy independence;
reducing dependence on nuclear fuel imports;
stimulating economic development in the region and creating new jobs.
The company emphasized that the implementation of production will ensure the domestic manufacture of nuclear fuel components for Ukrainian reactors and will become part of the country’s long-term nuclear energy development strategy.
The launch of the complex is also expected to contribute to the development of Yuzhnoukrainsk’s infrastructure and increase the region’s investment attractiveness.
In July 2025, Energoatom and the American company Westinghouse signed a memorandum on the transfer of nuclear fuel production technology to Ukraine. The cost of the first stage of cooperation was estimated at approximately $20 million.
Energoatom is Ukraine’s largest power generation company, providing more than 55% of the country’s electricity production. The company has four operating nuclear power plants (Zaporizhzhia, South Ukraine, Rivne, and Khmelnytskyi).
If most hotel projects in Ukraine are completed in 2025–2026 and demonstrate financial stability, the market will see a “second wave of boom,” according to Apartel Resorts partner Yevgeny Kudryavchenko in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine.
“We saw the first boom in 2021-2022, but the war interrupted these processes. Now there is cautious growth, and if the facilities prove their effectiveness, there will be a new surge of interest and significantly more foreign investors,” he said.
Kudryavchenko emphasized that apart-hotels could become an important part of the infrastructure for future tourism and business travel in Ukraine.
Apartel resorts is a development company specializing in apart-hotel and hotel real estate projects in Ukraine.
Last week brought several landmark events to the crypto industry, reflecting both the growth of the sector and the tightening of regulation.
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The week was a landmark one for the crypto market: investments in stablecoins and new products from Wall Street strengthened institutional confidence, while regulatory initiatives in China, Korea, and Ukraine serve as a reminder of the high risks involved. In the coming months, the market will see a clash between two trends: large-scale institutional growth and increased government control.
Source: https://www.fixygen.ua/news/20250927/znakovaya-nedelya-dlya-kriptorynka-obzor-fixygen.html
The logistics department of one of Ukraine’s largest grain market operators, Nibulon LLC, has transported over 40,000 tons of grain from its partners to the company’s elevators and ports since the beginning of the 2025-2026 marketing year (July-June), the grain trader’s press service reported on Facebook.
According to the report, about 100 of the company’s vehicles are currently working on harvesting its own products in various regions.
“33 trucks from the Nibulon fleet are fulfilling external orders, helping agricultural producers deliver their harvested crops on time,” the report said.
The agricultural holding noted that the company offers a full range of services for farmers: harvesting, transportation, storage, and further sale of products.
The “Transportation” service can be ordered via the NIBULON APP mobile application, where you can select a route, track your cargo in real time, and manage logistics from your phone. Grain is transported from the field to the Nibulon elevator, from the field to the port, and from the field to the warehouse.
The main advantages of the agricultural holding are an individual tariff depending on the distance (t/km); modern, economical equipment = lower cost; online cargo tracking; a chatbot for registering vehicles and unloading without queues.
NIBULON LLC was established in 1991. Before the Russian military invasion, the grain trader had 27 transshipment terminals and complexes for receiving agricultural crops, a capacity for one-time storage of 2.25 million tons of agricultural products, a fleet of 83 vessels (including 23 tugboats), and also owned the Mykolaiv Shipyard.
Before the war, Nibulon cultivated 82,000 hectares of land in 12 regions of Ukraine and exported agricultural products to more than 70 countries around the world. In 2021, the grain trader exported a record 5.64 million tons of agricultural products and supplied record volumes to foreign markets in August (0.7 million tons), in the fourth quarter (1.88 million tons), and in the second half of the year (3.71 million tons).
The grain trader is currently operating at 32% of its capacity, has created a special unit for demining agricultural land, and has been forced to move its central office from Mykolaiv to Kyiv.
