The “Silpo” supermarket chain has opened a new designer supermarket in Kyiv, at the Taryan Towers Residential Complex (12 Ioanna Pavla II Street), according to the company’s press office.
The supermarket’s design is inspired by the theme of space.
Silpo-Food LLC, which operates the Silpo chain, was established in early August 2016. As of June 2026, the chain operated 312 supermarkets.
According to YouControl, the founder of the LLC is PJSC “Retail Capital” (100%, Kyiv), a closed-end, non-diversified venture corporate investment fund. The ultimate beneficiary is Volodymyr Kostelman.
Silpo-Food’s revenue for 2025 increased by 13.97% compared to 2024—to 106.013 billion UAH, while net profit amounted to 1.205 billion UAH, compared to 154.1 million UAH for the same period the previous year.
It is part of the Fozzy Group, a retail and industrial group with more than 825 retail outlets throughout the country. The company operates retail chains of various formats: “Silpo” supermarkets, “Fozzy” wholesale hypermarkets, “Fora” neighborhood stores, “Thrash!” discount stores, “Bila Romashka” pharmacy supermarkets, and “E-ZOO” pet stores.
Kyiv, based on the results of the first nine months of 2026, showed the largest negative balance in Ukraine between companies that registered in the capital after changing their region and those that legally left it. The capital’s net balance was minus 559 companies, according to an analysis by Experts Club based on OpenDataBot statistics.
The second-largest negative result was recorded in the Dnipropetrovsk region—minus 378 companies. In the Odesa region, the balance was minus 84; in the Poltava region, minus 66; and in the Volyn region, minus 65.
In total, 17 regions had a negative balance of legal relocations.
At the same time, in eight regions, the number of companies that changed their registration to that region exceeded the number of those that left it. The largest net gain was recorded in the Sumy region—a net gain of 412 companies. The Kharkiv region saw a net gain of 406 companies, the Zaporizhzhia region—401, the Lviv region—161, and the Kherson region—109.
Chernihiv Oblast also had a positive balance—a net increase of 34 companies—as did Zakarpattia Oblast (27) and Chernivtsi Oblast (8).
The most popular single route remained Kyiv to Kyiv Oblast: 468 companies changed their registered address from the capital to the oblast. At the same time, 350 companies moved their registration in the opposite direction.
Another 340 companies re-registered from Kyiv to the Zaporizhzhia region, and 331 to the Kharkiv region. From the Dnipropetrovsk region, 322 companies moved their registered address to the capital.
According to analysts at Experts Club, the significant positive balance in frontline and war-affected regions should be interpreted with particular caution. Since these figures refer to registered addresses, such statistics do not in themselves indicate a relocation of production facilities, offices, or the majority of employees to those areas.
Source: OpenDataBot
Kyiv leads among Ukraine’s regions in the number of active companies that have reported zero revenue for at least two consecutive years or have not filled in the corresponding field in their financial statements.
According to Opendatabot, 15,078 such companies are registered in the capital, accounting for nearly 29% of the country’s total.
In total, there are 52,202 active commercial companies in Ukraine that have filed financial statements showing zero or blank revenue for at least the last two consecutive years.
The Dnipropetrovsk region ranks second—3,998 companies, or about 8% of the total. There are 3,663 such companies registered in the Kharkiv region and 3,471 in the Odesa region.
Thus, Kyiv and the three largest regions alone account for more than half of all companies in the country that have not reported any revenue in their financial statements for a long time.
One in four companies in the studied group has been in this state for three consecutive years, and 4,600 enterprises have not reported any revenue for five years.
The most common legal form among such enterprises remains the LLC—accounting for 42,383 companies, or 81% of the sample.
According to Opendatabot’s assessment, one of the reasons for the continued existence of legally active but effectively inactive enterprises is the complexity of the liquidation procedure. In addition, some companies may have suspended operations due to the war, the loss of production capacity, or the loss of sales markets.
Source: Opendatabot
According to Interfax-Ukraine, construction of special high-capacity power plants for water supply facilities is underway in the capital; one-third of the work has already been completed, and the project is scheduled to be finished by the end of the year, according to the Kyivvodokanal press service.
“Overall, in terms of the water supply system, 27 megawatts of backup power have been secured,” the statement, published on Facebook on Saturday, notes.
According to the company, small- and medium-capacity water supply facilities have already been equipped with generators. At the same time, approximately 40 MW of capacity is currently under development as part of the construction of power plants for facilities with high energy consumption. This project has been designated a priority.
“Kyivvodokanal” also drew the attention of residents of high-rise buildings to the specifics of water supply to upper floors: “Water pressure on upper floors is usually maintained by additional booster stations, which take time to start up and will not operate in the absence of electricity. Such booster stations are not within the scope of responsibility of “Kyivvodokanal.”
JSC “Ukrzaliznytsia” has launched 18 additional Kyiv City Express shuttle trips between the capital’s left and right banks, the company’s press service reported.
“From October 5 to 9, we are scheduling 18 additional Kyiv City Express shuttle trips on the Vydubychi–Darnitsa–Vydubychi route so that you can quickly and without traffic jams get to work, run errands, or return home amid the difficult traffic conditions on Kyiv’s bridges,” the Telegram message states.
As noted, the 18 shuttle trips will run during the morning and evening rush hours: from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. and from 4:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. At the Vydubychi station, boarding and alighting will take place on three tracks. At the Darnytsia station, boarding and alighting will take place on one or two tracks (please listen carefully to station announcements). Additional trips will stop at the Bereznyaky station.
“In addition to the KSE shuttle trains, for trips between the right and left banks, you can use scheduled commuter and regional trains running to and from Nizhyn, Hrebinka, Konotop, and Slavutych. They make mandatory stops at the Vydubychi and Darnytsia stations, and commuter trains will also stop at the Bereznyaky station,” added Ukrzaliznytsia.
It is explained that thanks to the combination of additional shuttle services and scheduled trains with Kyiv City Express (KSE) trains, up to six trips will run between the two banks during peak hours, so passengers won’t have to wait long for the next train.
The company noted that tickets are available with just a few clicks in the UZ app.
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Kyiv led all regions of Ukraine in net growth of sole proprietorships (FOPs) from January through September 2026—the number of businesses opened exceeded the number of businesses closed by 7,751, according to data from the Unified State Register analyzed by Opendatabot and the Experts Club analytical center.
Over the course of nine months, approximately 27,300 new sole proprietorships were registered in the capital, the highest figure in the country. At the same time, approximately 19,500 entrepreneurs in the capital ceased operations.
The Dnipropetrovsk region ranked second in terms of net growth, with an increase of 7,333 sole proprietorships. Next came the Lviv region with an increase of 6,963 entrepreneurs, the Kyiv region with 6,510, and the Odesa region with 5,143.
Overall, positive trends were recorded in 22 regions of Ukraine.
A decline in the number of entrepreneurs occurred in only three regions near the front lines. It was most significant in the Donetsk region, where the number of closures exceeded the number of new registrations by 1,120 sole proprietorships. In the Kherson region, the net decrease was 397 entrepreneurs, and in the Luhansk region, 203.
At the same time, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast ranks second not only in terms of net growth but also in the absolute number of new registrations—22,300 sole proprietorships were established there over the nine-month period.
In Lviv Oblast, 17,200 new entrepreneurs were registered; in Odesa Oblast, 16,700; and in Kyiv Oblast, 16,500.
In terms of the number of closures, the Dnipropetrovsk region follows Kyiv with 14,900 sole proprietorships. In the Odesa and Kharkiv regions, approximately 11,500 entrepreneurs each ceased operations, and in the Lviv region, 10,200 did so.
In total, 222,288 new sole proprietorships were established in Ukraine during the first nine months of 2026, while 155,645 were closed. The net increase in small businesses amounted to 66,643 sole proprietorships.
Source: Opendatabot — sole proprietorship statistics for January–September 2026.
