According to Experts.news, Ukrainian companies significantly increased their production of notebooks, toilet paper, and wallpaper in July 2026, according to data from the UkrPapir Association of Pulp and Paper Industry Enterprises.
Notebook production reached 28.36 million units, which is 34.5% more than in July 2025. Compared to June of this year, output increased by a factor of 4.4.
Production of toilet paper rolls rose by 9.8% year-over-year, reaching 52.48 million rolls.
At the same time, production of 100% cellulose toilet paper reached 23.68 million rolls, an increase of nearly 23% compared to July of last year.
The wallpaper market also continued its recovery. In July, Ukrainian companies produced 1.63 million standard pieces of wallpaper, which is 12.8% more than a year earlier and 7.5% more than in June.
In this segment, the association has statistics from the largest manufacturer—the company “Slavyanski Wallpaper—KFTP.”
Production of paper towels in rolls also increased by 1.6% year-over-year—to 5.14 million rolls. At the same time, production of 100% cellulose table napkins fell by more than half—to 1.5 million packs.
Overall, the volume of commercial output by companies in the industry reached 3.06 billion UAH in July, which is 28.8% more than in July 2025.
Thus, in the pulp and paper industry, the most notable growth in July was seen not only in packaging board but also in certain consumer paper products.
Original source: the “UkrPapir” Association.
Ukrainian companies seeking to become suppliers to international corporations face formalized supplier onboarding procedures. For a large customer, receiving a commercial offer is not enough — it must unambiguously identify the legal entity, verify its owners, banking details, country of registration, and basic risks.
As a result, transparent business identification is becoming one of the practical barriers to Ukrainian suppliers entering global procurement chains. A company may meet technical requirements but lose time because of discrepancies in its name, address, registration data, or international profile.
“A supplier to a large corporation must not only be competitive but also easy to verify. The procurement officer must quickly understand exactly which legal entity stands behind the offer, who controls it, and whether the data match across different systems. For Ukrainian business, this is one of the elements of professional preparation for working with global clients,” said Maksym Urakin, Director of Development and Marketing at Interfax-Ukraine, Head of the D&B–Interfax-Ukraine business unit, PhD in Economics.
Before registering in a supplier system, a company should verify its official English-language name, legal address, information about its director and owners, contact details, banking information, and international identifiers. If a D-U-N-S Number has already been assigned, it should ensure that the profile linked to it is up to date.
For an international corporation, such standardization reduces the risk of duplicate suppliers, fraud, erroneous payments, and sanctions violations. For a Ukrainian company, it speeds up the customer’s internal procedures.
Dun & Bradstreet works with a global system of business identification and corporate data used in supplier management, due diligence, and procurement processes. In Ukraine, the relevant services and support are provided by D&B – Interfax-Ukraine.
For Ukrainian manufacturers, IT companies, engineering enterprises, and service providers, a transparent business profile can become one of the basic tools for integration into the procurement chains of international groups.
Dun & Bradstreet is an international provider of business data and analytical solutions whose history began in 1841. D&B works with company data worldwide and provides tools for business identification, counterparty verification, assessment of credit and commercial risks, compliance, and supply chain management.
The official representative of Dun & Bradstreet in Ukraine is the Interfax-Ukraine News Agency. The specialized D&B – Interfax-Ukraine unit provides Ukrainian companies with access to international business data, helps verify foreign counterparties, and supports work with D&B tools.
Questions can be submitted through the specialized D&B resource — dnb.ua, by email at Urakin@interfax.kyiv.ua, or by phone at +38 (044) 270-65-74.
According to The Serbian Economist, Tamara Vučić, the wife of the President of Serbia, participated in the 6th Summit of First Ladies and Gentlemen, which took place on August 24 in Kyiv on Ukraine’s Independence Day. The theme of this year’s meeting was “Peace-2026: Finding Stability in Times of Uncertainty.”
The First Lady of Lithuania, Diana Nausėdenė; the wife of the President of Estonia, Sirje Karis; the wife of the President of Finland, Susanna Innes-Stubb; the First Lady of Romania, Mirabela Gredinaru; Tamara Vučić; and the First Gentleman of Slovenia, Ales Musar, all traveled to Kyiv in person. As is tradition, Olena Zelenska served as the host of the summit. Representatives from Germany, Turkey, Israel, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Belize, and Guatemala joined online. In total, the event brought together representatives from 14 countries.
An interesting part of the summit was the presentation of a unique “dictionary of resilience”—words and traditions from various nations that help society maintain unity in times of crisis.
Serbia presented “krsna slava”—a unique Serbian tradition of honoring the family’s patron saint.
Vucic called the slava “the living code of our identity” and explained that this tradition unites the family regardless of where its members are.
Speaking about the historical roots of Serbian resilience, she recalled the medieval rulers who, instead of palaces, left behind monasteries and charitable foundations. Vucic specifically mentioned the Serbian monasteries in Kosovo and Metohija, which are on UNESCO’s List of World Heritage Sites in Danger.
According to her, during difficult historical periods, Serbs effectively “brought the church under their own roof”: the home became a place for preserving faith, memory, and family unity, while glory became an intangible legacy passed down from generation to generation.
The First Ladies and Gentlemen Summit was launched at the initiative of Olena Zelenska in 2021 as an international platform for humanitarian and social projects. This year, the main focus was on what helps people, families, and nations maintain resilience during times of war and global uncertainty.
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Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani confirmed that a new aid package for Ukraine is being prepared, as well as the continuation of the Italian government’s commitments regarding Ukraine’s security, recovery, and defense.
According to the website of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Tajani made these remarks during a phone call with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiga on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of Ukraine’s restoration of independence.
During the conversation, Tajani condemned the ongoing Russian attacks on Ukrainian territory and reaffirmed the Italian government’s full support for the Ukrainian people.
“The minister reaffirmed the government’s commitment to maintaining maximum pressure on Moscow, as demonstrated by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s participation today in the Coalition of the Willing. Tajani confirmed that the government’s commitment to Ukraine’s security, reconstruction, and defense remains firm, in particular thanks to a new Italian aid package currently being prepared, as well as support through EU sanctions,” the statement reads.
Separately, the parties discussed food security and maritime safety. Tajani emphasized the importance of the Black Sea and the entire Mediterranean for global food security and ensuring the continuity of Ukrainian grain exports.
He reaffirmed Italy’s readiness to cooperate with Kyiv, in particular by exploring avenues for collaboration with MED9+ initiatives regarding the Strait of Hormuz, underscoring the interconnection between maritime security, economic stability, energy flows, and food security.
The conversation also touched on Ukraine’s recovery. According to the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italy has already allocated approximately 3.2 billion euros to support Ukraine’s recovery and reconstruction, in part through contributions from Italian companies.
Only 11 of the 103 criminal cases involving corporate raiding registered in Ukraine between January and July 2026 were referred to court, according to data from the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine published by Opendatabot and analyzed by the Experts Club think tank.
Thus, approximately 10.7% of the cases reached the court stage—roughly one in nine cases.
In another 21 cases, law enforcement agencies issued notices of suspicion. This corresponds to roughly one in five cases registered since the beginning of the year.
All 11 cases that reached court relate to Article 205-1 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine—the forgery of documents submitted for state registration of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs.
In total, 74 cases were opened under this article between January and July, accounting for nearly 72% of all proceedings related to corporate raiding.
The prospects for court proceedings regarding categories that are more serious from a business perspective look significantly worse.
Over the course of seven months, law enforcement agencies registered 17 proceedings concerning the unlawful seizure of property belonging to an enterprise, institution, or organization under Article 206-2 of the Criminal Code and 12 proceedings concerning obstruction of lawful economic activity under Article 206.
None of these 29 proceedings had been referred to court as of the publication of this study.
At the same time, the number of cases involving the unlawful seizure of corporate property in just the first seven months of 2026 already exceeded the total for the entire previous year, and their share in the overall structure of raider-related cases rose from 7% in 2025 to approximately 17% this year.
Overall, the number of registered raider attacks continues to decline. From January through July, there were 103 such cases—36% fewer than during the same period in 2025, and approximately five times fewer than before the start of the full-scale war.
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According to Experts.news, the United Kingdom could come close to the entire European Union market in terms of Ukrainian chicken meat purchases by 2027, while the importance of Middle Eastern countries for Ukrainian exporters will decline, according to a forecast by the Kyiv office of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA FAS).
In the “Poultry and Products Annual” report, published on August 19, 2026, the United Kingdom is identified as one of the key drivers of growth in Ukrainian chicken meat production and exports in 2026–2027.
On January 16, 2026, Ukraine and the United Kingdom agreed to extend the duty-free trade regime for chicken meat and a number of other agricultural products until March 31, 2028. The United Kingdom will not impose a tariff quota on Ukrainian chicken until that date.
According to USDA estimates, this effectively provides Ukrainian producers with nearly two additional years of unrestricted access to one of the world’s most price-competitive markets. In some months, retail prices for Ukrainian chicken in the United Kingdom have even been higher than in the EU.
As a result, FAS/Kyiv expects a further sharp increase in shipments to the United Kingdom. By 2027, their volume could become comparable to Ukraine’s total chicken exports to the EU.
At the same time, the European Union remains the industry’s largest premium market; however, shipments are limited by a new permanent duty-free quota of 120,000 metric tons per year.
The new quota was agreed upon by Ukraine and the EU in October 2025. It replaced the pre-war permanent quota of 90,000 metric tons and the temporary regime of autonomous trade measures, which allowed for significantly larger volumes to be exported. The USDA expects that in 2026–2027, actual exports to the EU will remain at the established limit of 120,000 metric tons.
The expansion of shipments to the UK and the EU is already changing the geography of Ukrainian exports.
The shift is particularly noticeable in the Middle East. The USDA reports that in 2026, Ukrainian chicken exports to Saudi Arabia—which had previously been Ukraine’s largest single export market for this product—ceased entirely.
This occurred despite MHP’s long-standing relationship with Saudi Arabia and the Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment Company (SALIC), which owns 13% of MHP. At the same time, the USDA anticipates that Ukrainian products may return to the Saudi market in the coming years.
Exports to Iraq, on the other hand, continue. The USDA specifically notes that Ukraine was not included in Iraq’s ban on chicken imports from 39 major supplier countries due to risks associated with highly pathogenic avian influenza.
Ukrainian producers also maintain a presence in the markets of Africa and the former Soviet Union countries; however, the most profitable European markets are gradually drawing a portion of the production toward them.
Exports via Turkey are primarily of a transit nature: according to USDA industry sources, most of the Ukrainian poultry arriving there is subsequently re-exported to Asia or Africa. At the same time, the free trade agreement between Ukraine and Turkey, which will take effect in 2026, provides for a separate duty-free quota of 2,000 metric tons for raw and processed poultry products.
Overall, according to the latest estimate by FAS/Kyiv, chicken meat exports from Ukraine will increase from about 450,000 metric tons in 2025 to 490,000 metric tons in 2026 and 530,000 metric tons in 2027.
Thus, one of the key changes over the next two years will be the further reorientation of the Ukrainian poultry industry toward the United Kingdom and the EU, at the expense of some of its traditional markets in the Middle East and Asia.
Source: USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, Ukraine: Poultry and Products Annual, UP2026-0022, August 19, 2026.
