As of October 2026, there were 2,029,200 enforcement proceedings related to unpaid traffic fines in Ukraine’s Unified Register of Debtors, according to data from the analytical service “OpenDataBot.”
According to the service, 395,800 cases involving traffic fines were added to the registry in 2026.
At the same time, a significant portion of the debt is concentrated among drivers who systematically fail to pay their fines. Specifically, the 50 largest debtors, based on the number of cases opened in 2026, accounted for 6,235 cases, of which nearly 77% remained active as of October.
Thus, approximately 4,800 cases involving this group of debtors remained unresolved.
According to the study, for 58% of those on the list of the 50 largest debtors, all cases opened during the current year remain active. At the same time, four drivers no longer have any active cases among those opened in 2026.
A separate ranking, based on the total number of accumulated active cases from all previous years, revealed an even greater scale of debt. Collectively, the 50 largest debtors have 21,443 such cases, or an average of 429 per person.
The average age of those on the 2026 list of the largest debtors is 41 years. The youngest debtor is 22 years old, and the oldest is 63 years old.
The largest number of cases involves drivers aged 41 to 50. In this category, 17 individuals have accumulated 2,526 cases. Another 1,794 enforcement proceedings have been registered against 16 individuals aged 31 to 40.
Data from the Unified Register of Debtors reflects enforcement proceedings initiated due to late payment of fines, not the total number of all recorded traffic violations in Ukraine.
You can check for outstanding debts through the Unified Register of Debtors or specialized services for checking traffic fines.
Freight volume in January–September 2026 increased by 1% compared to the same period in 2025, reaching 242 million metric tons, while passenger traffic decreased by 5.7% to 1.54 billion people, according to a report by the State Statistics Service.
According to its data, 106.4 million metric tons of freight were transported by rail during the reporting period, which is 11.8% less than in the first nine months of last year, while freight turnover decreased by 18.6% to 61.51 billion ton-kilometers.
Road freight transport in January–September of this year increased by 24.3% compared to the same period in 2025—to 113.7 million metric tons—while freight turnover rose by 13.9%—to 33.22 billion metric ton-kilometers.
The largest number of passengers during the reporting period was carried by road—700.6 million people, which is 1.2% more than during the same period in 2025.
A 1.3% decrease was recorded for the metro—243.5 million people.
Among other things, the number of passengers carried by rail over the first nine months of this year fell by 18.9% compared to the same period last year—to 39.45 million; by tram—by 16.6% to 195.15 million; and by trolleybus—by 12.2% to 360.84 million.
It is noted that the volume of freight transported in January–August 2026 increased by 2.9% compared to the same period in 2025—to 218.1 million metric tons—while the number of passengers decreased by 4.8%—to 1 billion 374.1 million people.
In September 2026, Ukrainian citizens purchased 158 residential properties in Turkey, a 7.5% increase from August; however, they dropped from second to fifth place among foreign buyers. Russians retained their lead, increasing the number of purchases over the year by 45.3% to 388 properties, according to data from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) published on October 16.
In September, Russian citizens purchased 388 apartments and houses, compared to 343 in August and 267 in September of last year. Thus, the number of transactions rose by 13.1% over the month and by 45.3% year-over-year. Russian buyers accounted for approximately 17.9% of all residential property sales to foreigners.
Iraqi citizens ranked second among foreign buyers with 166 properties purchased, followed by Germany in third place with 162. Next came Iran with 159 properties and Ukraine with 158. China ranked sixth, with its citizens purchasing 124 properties.
Despite dropping in the rankings, Ukrainian buyers have increased the number of transactions for the third consecutive month. In July, they purchased 145 properties; in August, 147; and in September, 158. The share of Ukrainians among all foreign homebuyers in Turkey in September was 7.3%, down from 7.6% in August.
A total of 2,167 residential properties were sold to foreign citizens in September, which is 9.9% more than during the same period last year. Compared to August, when foreigners purchased 1,938 properties, this represents an 11.8% increase.
However, over the first nine months of 2026, the number of apartments and houses purchased by foreigners decreased by 4.3% compared to the same period in 2025, totaling 15,308 properties. Foreign buyers accounted for 1.5% of the total number of transactions in September.
The domestic Turkish real estate market continues to decline. In September, 142,390 residential properties were sold in the country, which is 9.3% less than a year earlier. Sales of new homes rose by 3.9% to 51,519 units, while the number of transactions in the resale market fell by 15.3% to 90,871.
From January through September, total housing sales in Turkey amounted to 1.093 million units, a 7.2% decrease compared to last year.
Ukrainians remain one of the largest groups of foreign buyers of Turkish real estate. By the end of 2025, Ukrainian citizens had purchased 1,541 residential properties, ranking third behind Russians, who bought 3,649 properties, and Iranians, with 1,878 purchases. In 2024, Ukrainians purchased 1,631 properties.
As previously reported by Open4Business, in August 2026, approximately 78% of all residential property purchases by Ukrainian citizens in Turkey took place in the province of Antalya. There, Ukrainians purchased 114 out of 147 properties, while Russians purchased 226. Overall, Istanbul, Antalya, and Mersin remained the largest hubs for foreign purchases in August.
According to the international real estate agency Homium, the average budget for a Ukrainian buyer of real estate in Turkey in 2025–2026 is $100,000–$200,000. The main interest is focused on Antalya, Alanya, Istanbul, and other cities along the Mediterranean coast.
Thus, the September statistics indicate a revival in foreign demand for Turkish real estate against the backdrop of an overall contraction in the domestic market.
China’s GDP grew by 4.5% year-over-year in the third quarter of 2026, according to a report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) of the People’s Republic of China.
The growth rate accelerated compared to the second quarter, when it stood at 4.3%—the lowest since 2022.
Analysts surveyed by Trading Economics had expected GDP growth of 4.4% on average for the previous quarter.
China’s GDP growth from July to September, compared with the previous three months, was 1.2% (forecast: 1.1%), up from 0.9% in April–June.
From January through September, the economy grew by 4.6% year-over-year, reaching 107.1 trillion yuan (about $16 trillion).
The Chinese government’s GDP growth target for this year is 4.5–5%.
China’s per capita disposable income rose 5.3% year-over-year over the nine-month period to 34,230 yuan ($5,100), according to the National Bureau of Statistics. Adjusted for inflation, it increased by 4.4%.
CHINA, ECONOMY, GDP, INCOME, STATISTICS
In 2025, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine resumed imposing administrative fines for violations related to the submission of statistical reports, after no such resolutions were issued in 2023 or 2024.
According to Opendatabot, in 2025, the State Statistics Service issued 30 rulings totaling 5,100 UAH. By comparison, there were 21 such rulings in 2022, and none in 2023–2024.
The refund of fines is linked to the reinstatement of mandatory statistical and financial reporting. The State Statistics Service officially announced that, as of July 5, 2025, reporting once again became mandatory for enterprises, institutions, organizations, and entrepreneurs included in state statistical surveys.
Companies that took advantage of wartime exemptions and failed to submit the required information in 2022–2025 were required to file their backlog of reports within three months—by October 5, 2025. At the same time, the regular deadlines for submitting current reports were reinstated.
However, the practice of imposing fines in 2025 proved to be extremely uneven. All 30 resolutions were issued in just five regions: respondents in Vinnytsia, Zakarpattia, and Ivano-Frankivsk Oblasts received eight each; those in Mykolaiv Oblast received five; and one was issued in Luhansk Oblast.
Administrative liability applies for failure to provide statistical data, missing deadlines, or submitting inaccurate or incomplete information. According to Opendatabot, the fine for officials and sole proprietors ranges from 170 to 255 UAH, and may be higher in the event of a repeat violation.
In 2026, the reporting obligation remains in effect. The State Statistics Service has published a separate reporting calendar for 2026 and allows companies to review the required forms via the “My Reporting” service.
Source: Opendatabot, published on August 14, 2026; State Statistics Service of Ukraine.
ENTERPRISE, FINE, REPORTING, State Statistics Service, STATISTICS
In Ukraine, 79,516 thousand marriages were registered from January through June 2026, which is 16% more than during the same period last year, OpenDataBot reported on July 31, citing data from the Ministry of Justice.
On average, about 13,300 couples got married each month in Ukraine during the first half of the year. At the same time, the total number of marriages for the year may turn out to be significantly higher, as Ukrainians traditionally tend to register their marriages more often in the second half of the year. In 2025, the difference between the two halves of the year was 41%.
The most popular date in the first half of the year was June 26, 2026. On the palindromic date of 06/26/2026, 2,528 thousand couples registered their marriages. Another 1,248 thousand couples got married on February 14, Valentine’s Day.
The increase in the total number of marriages was largely driven by Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Lviv regions. These three regions accounted for more than half of all marriages registered in the country.
One of the main factors was the expansion of remote civil registration: four out of ten marriages in the first half of the year were registered online.
