Initial registrations of new and used buses (including minibuses) in Ukraine in November 2025 increased by 19% compared to the same month last year, to 308 units, according to UkrAvtoprom on its Telegram channel.
Compared to October of this year, when 225 buses were registered, the market grew by 37%.
The share of new vehicles in November’s volume was 51%, compared to 63% last year.
As in the previous year, Ataman of the Cherkasy Bus plant leads among new buses with 57 units, which is 18 more than in November 2024 and October 2025.
Second in the ranking were buses from the ZAZ Zaporizhzhia Automobile Plant, with 30 units, which also took second place last year with 39 vehicles.
Isuzu buses came third in the ranking with 20 units, which were not among the ten most popular last year, while Etalon buses from the Chernihiv Automobile Plant did not make it into the top three in November (last year they ranked fourth with 18 vehicles).
Among the most frequently registered used buses in November were Mercedes-Benz (46 units), VDL (34 units), and Van Hool (15 units).
According to UkrAvtoprom, in January-November 2025, a total of 2,421 buses were added to Ukraine’s bus fleet (+27% compared to the same period in 2024), of which 1,203 were new (+9%) and 1,218 were used (+50%).
As reported, in 2024, initial registrations of new and used buses decreased by 19% compared to 2023, to 2,241 units, including new buses by 24%, to 1,296 units, and used buses by 12%, to 945 units.
Briorson Motors has started production of ambulance vehicles in Ukraine on the basis of a Hyundai H350 minibus, according to a press release of the company. “By the end of this year it plans to produce 80 ambulances,” the company said.
“The main goal of our company is to create a quality product for providing medical assistance in any climatic zones and in off-road conditions. Our vehicles cope with their tasks both in urban conditions and on bad roads in remote rural areas,” Briorson Motors representative Vladyslav Kotliarenko said. According to him, the production plan for 2019 is 500 special vehicles.
The company told Interfax-Ukraine the production facilities of Briorson Motors are located in Cherkasy. According to the state register, Briorson Motors LLC with a charter capital of UAH 100 is registered in Kyiv in November 2017. Its core business is production of vehicles. The owner of the company is Kolares LLC (Kyiv), the ultimate beneficiary is Vadym Kotliarenko. Andriy Honcharenko has been its head since August 2018.
