In 2025, almost 12,300 new vehicles were added to Ukraine’s fleet of new trucks and special-purpose vehicles, which is 5% less than in 2024, Ukravtoprom reported on its Telegram channel.
Renault retained its market leadership, although its sales fell by 49% compared to 2024, to 1,662 units. Citroen also retained second place with 1,335 units (+11%), while MAN came in third, as in 2024, with 1,083 units (+9%).
Next in the ranking were Peugeot with 1,043 units (+70%), which ranked seventh in 2024, and Fiat with 808 units (+73%), which was not among the top ten most popular brands last year.
Sixth place, as in 2024, went to Mercedes-Benz with 749 units (+20%); seventh place went to Ford with 687 units (-19%).
Rounding out the top ten most popular commercial vehicles are Toyota with 677 units (+111%); Iveco with 616 units (+13%); and Opel with 590 units (+56%).
According to the association, 1,439 vehicles were sold in this market in the last month of 2025, which is 46% more than in the previous month and 6% more than in December 2024.
At the same time, the AUTO-Consulting information and analytical group, analyzing the segment of trucks with a gross weight of more than 3.5 tons, notes that last year it decreased by 17%, and MAN retained its leadership with a 24% increase in sales, preferred by 23% of consumers.
“During the year, Iveco, Volvo, and Renault Trucks took the lead in certain months. However, at the end of the year, they still failed to come close to MAN’s performance,” experts stated in a report on the group’s website.
Iveco ranks second in this segment, followed by Volvo in third place.
As reported, according to Ukravtoprom, registrations of new commercial vehicles (trucks and special vehicles) in 2024 increased by 14% compared to 2023, to 12,900 units.
Sales of new buses in Ukraine in 2025 will grow by 13-15% compared to 2024 – to 940-950 units, according to Vadym Shkarupin, director of the Etalon Auto trading house.
“Although the year is not over yet, and we, like other companies, are still working, according to open data (excluding closed purchases), about 940-950 buses will be sold, compared to 831 buses last year,” he said at a press conference in Kyiv on Monday.
According to his data, Ataman buses manufactured by the Cherkasy Bus plant are in first place in sales this year with 370 units (market share of 39%), followed by ZAZ buses from the Zaporizhzhia Automobile Plant (UKRAVTO Group) with 240 units (24%), and third place goes to Etalon buses manufactured by the Chernihiv Automobile Plant, with 130 units (14%).
Next in the ranking are Bogdan buses (manufactured by BAS Motor in Lutsk) with 100 units (11%), and fifth place is taken by imported Isuzu buses (50 units or 6% of the market).
Another 50 buses are from other manufacturers: Turkish Temsa, Otocar, and two Elektron buses.
The largest number of buses sold were in the small class – 720 units (77%), 160 units (17%) were sold in the medium class, and 60 units (6.5%) in the large class.
Almost all buses sold were diesel-powered, with two electric buses sold.
“In terms of structure, 88-90% of sales were made using budget funds: for example, of the 940 buses sold, 720 were school buses. No more than 12% were sold to retailers, but this cannot even be called retail, because these were purchases made by companies for their own needs, to transport personnel. We had orders from Ukrnafta, from the Khmelnytskyi Nuclear Power Plant, and other manufacturers are also working in this direction. Meanwhile, retail is at a standstill today, there are no purchases,” Shkarupin said.
At the same time, he noted that Ukrainian companies have work thanks to the School Bus program.
Sales of new commercial vehicles (trucks and special vehicles) in Ukraine in November 2025 decreased by 10% compared to the same month in 2024, to 982 units, which is also 18% less than in October 2025, according to UkrAvtoprom on its Telegram channel.
The leader in this market in November was MAN with sales of 118 vehicles, which ranked fourth in November last year and October this year (89 and 90 units, respectively), followed by last year’s leader Renault with 117 units. (233 units last year), and FIAT came in third with 88 units, which ranked 11th last November with 42 vehicles.
Next in the ranking are Citroen with 85 units (in November 2024, it was in second place with 143 cars) and Mercedes-Benz with 79 units (last year, it had 100 cars and was in third place).
According to UkrAvtoprom, a total of 10,835 new vehicles were added to the Ukrainian fleet of trucks and special-purpose vehicles in January-November, which is 6% less than in the same period last year.
As reported, in 2024, according to UkrAvtoprom, 12,900 new commercial vehicles were registered in Ukraine, which is 14% more than in 2023.
Sales of new commercial vehicles (trucks and special-purpose vehicles) in Ukraine in October 2025 increased by 11% compared to the same month in 2024, reaching 1,203 units, which is also 8% more than in September 2025, according to UkrAvtoprom’s Telegram channel.
As in the previous year, Peugeot was the market leader in October with 115 units sold, compared to 246 units sold in October 2024.
Peugeot took second place with 121 cars. Last October, the brand was eighth in the ranking with 60 cars.
Citroen took third place in the ranking with 95 units, which is 16 cars less than in October 2024, when the brand was second in the ranking. MAN came in fourth with sales of 90 cars, which is 14 units more than in October last year.
Volvo also made it into the top five most popular new special-purpose vehicles with 84 units, which was 13th in October last year with sales of 17 vehicles.
According to UkrAvtoprom, a total of 9,853 new vehicles were added to the Ukrainian fleet of trucks and special-purpose vehicles in January-October, which is 5.5% less than in the same period last year.
As reported, in 2024, according to UkrAvtoprom, 12,900 new commercial vehicles were registered in Ukraine, which is 14% more than in 2023.
Global chip sales in August increased 21.7% from the same month last year to $64.88 billion, according to a press release from the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA). Compared to July, the rebound was 4.4% (from a revised $62.14 billion).
“Global semiconductor sales continued to rise in August. Asia-Pacific and the Americas continue to drive the rebound, with particularly strong growth in memory and logic chip sales,” said SIA President and CEO John Newfer, quoted in the report
Sales in the Americas in August were up 25.5% year-over-year, with China up 12.4%, Europe up 4.4%, and Asia-Pacific and other regions up 43.1%. At the same time, a 6.9% decrease was recorded in Japan.
Chip sales relative to July increased in the Americas by 4.3%, in APAC by 6.9%, in the PRC by 3.3%, in Japan by 2%, and in Europe by 1%.
SIA represents about 99% of the U.S. semiconductor industry and about 66% of chip makers from other countries.
Sales of new passenger cars in Ukraine in January-September 2025 amounted to 54,300 units, which is almost equal to last year’s figures for this period, according to AUTO-Consulting.
“Throughout the year, the car market lagged significantly behind last year’s volumes. It all started with the cancellation of numerous USAID assistance programs, which immediately began to affect car deliveries. Other factors were added later. And only in the summer did the car market begin to return to last year’s track. And in September, it practically managed to catch up with the figure for the first nine months,” according to a statement on the information and analytical group’s website.
At the same time, according to analysts, passenger car sales in September fell by 3% compared to August 2025, to 6,737 units.
AUTO-Consulting notes that in terms of quality and structure, there were “dramatic changes” in this market in September, in particular, BYD is now the market leader, having managed to capture 14% of the market and overtake Toyota.
“Just a month ago, Toyota finished with these figures, and as soon as dealers slowed down a little, BYD surged ahead,” the group states.
There were no other changes in the top five compared to August – Volkswagen, Renault, and Skoda remained in the same positions as a month earlier, while BMW was one step ahead of Hyundai, taking sixth place without even increasing sales.
“There have also been changes among the popular models. The current bestseller is the VW ID. Unix, which has pushed even the “favorite” of all corporations, the Renault Duster, into second place. But it seems that these are not the final figures, as the BYD Seal and BYD Leopard 3 are already hot on their heels,” the report says.
AUTO-Consulting notes that in September, nine of the twenty most popular car models on the market were electric vehicles from the Chinese market.
As reported, according to the Ukravtoprom association, in September 2025, initial registrations of new passenger cars increased by 20% compared to September 2024 and by 1% compared to August 2025 – to more than 6,800 units, while in January-September they decreased by 0.3% to 52,900 units.
