Oschadbank has signed an investment loan agreement worth EUR 10.8 million with Helios Strategia Group’s subsidiary, Elio Luchky LLC, to finance the construction of a solar power plant with an installed capacity of 22.35 MW, inverter capacity of 16 MW and an energy storage facility (ESF) with a capacity of 33.44 MWh.
According to the bank’s press release on Monday, the solar power plant and energy storage facility will be located in the Mukachevo district of Zakarpattia region, with commissioning scheduled for January 2026.
“Our agreement with Helios Luchky is a 7-year project financing deal. These are the same “long-term” funds for new construction that are needed for economic development. I am glad that more and more such investment projects are being implemented,” commented Yuriy Katsion, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board of Oschadbank, responsible for corporate business.
According to him, this project is significant in terms of combining technologies that will ensure maximum profitability when selling electricity on the day-ahead market.
In his opinion, this is a good example of a balanced approach to the development of the country’s decentralized energy system.
“This project is not only a step towards a new decentralized energy sector, but also a demonstration of the technological readiness of Ukrainian companies to implement complex infrastructure solutions. We are grateful to the Oschadbank team for their partnership and belief in high-quality projects for a new energy future,” said Olena Skrypnyk, founder of Helios Strategia.
The release states that the international engineering group Helios Strategia specializes in EPC projects for solar energy and the implementation of renewable energy solutions for the industrial and commercial sectors. The total capacity of solar power plant projects in which the group has participated reaches 1.2 GW. The group’s other facilities are located mainly in the Dnipropetrovsk region, as well as in the Odesa and Mykolaiv regions.
As reported at the end of June, according to Yevhen Myachyn, Director of the Corporate Business Development and Support Department at Oschadbank, since the beginning of 2025, the volume of energy loan agreements concluded by Oschadbank with corporate clients has increased to EUR93 million, of which approximately 45% are energy storage facilities (ESF), 43% are wind farms, and 12% are ESF together with solar power plants.
The Zakarpattia Regional State Administration (RSA) is considering the allocation of a land plot for the construction of a river port and multimodal terminal on the banks of the Tisa River.
This was reported on the RSA’s Facebook page, citing the deputy head of the administration, Myroslav Biletsky.
Prospects for the project were discussed during a meeting with the relevant departments of the Tisza water resources management basin and the State Border Guard Service.
The project can become a component in the organization of international transportation on the Tisza with access to large navigable rivers.
“The river port and multimodal terminal will be the first facilities of this type in Zakarpattia. Its importance for international transportation for the country and our region, in particular, is difficult to overestimate. We are studying the documentary base, problematic issues, communicating with all interested structures to develop a strategy for the fastest possible implementation of the project,” Biletsky said in a statement.
The construction of the river port and multimodal terminal on the banks of the Tisza was initiated by the River Ports Administration. It applied to the regional state administration with a request to allocate a land plot for the facility.
Retail trade turnover in Ukraine in December 2021 increased by 5.1% compared to the same month in 2020 in comparable prices, while in November the growth was 5.8%, the State Statistics Service reported. According to its data, in December, compared to November 2021, retail trade turnover increased by 19.3%.
The agency reported that in 2021, compared to 2020, retail trade turnover increased by 10.7%, to UAH 1.443 trillion.
The largest growth in the retail trade turnover of enterprises (legal entities and individual entrepreneurs) in 2021 compared to 2020 was recorded in Chernivtsi (by 25.7%), Ternopil (by 23.2%), Zakarpattia (by 20.7%), Vinnytsia (by 18.5%), Lviv (by 17.3%), Poltava (by 15.1%), Rivne (by 15%), Zhytomyr (by 14.2%), Cherkasy (by 13.3%), Chernihiv regions (by 12.4%). According to the State Statistics Service, the leaders in absolute terms of retail turnover in 2021 were Kyiv city (UAH 279.124 billion), Dnipropetrovsk (UAH 132.258 billion), Kyiv (UAH 120.074 billion), Odesa (UAH 107.05 billion), Kharkiv (UAH 97.838 billion) and Lviv (UAH 89.465 billion) regions.
The State Agency of Automobile Roads of Ukraine (Ukravtodor) intends to implement three priority projects in Zakarpattia region under a Hungarian loan, the allocation of which was confirmed by Minister of Foreign Economy and Foreign Affairs of Hungary Peter Szijjarto during his working visit to Ukraine on Wednesday.
As the press service of Ukravtodor told Interfax-Ukraine, among these facilities, in particular, is the construction of a new 10-kilometer road of the first technical category from the Hungarian border to the M-24 highway, and then to the highway M-06 Kyiv-Chop.
“This will be a continuation of the Hungarian M3 motorway from Budapest to Vásárosnamény, which, in turn, is part of the Fifth Pan-European Transport Corridor that passes through the territory of Ukraine,” the agency said.
The expected traffic intensity on the site is 12,000 vehicles. The construction of three interchanges is envisaged. Another checkpoint on the Hungarian-Ukrainian border is envisaged as well.
According to Ukravtodor, the designed-estimated documentation for this project is being examined. The estimated cost of construction is UAH 3.8 billion.
Another priority object is the construction of a bypass road around the town of Berehove and further to the Luzhanka checkpoint on the border with Hungary. The estimated cost of construction is UAH 1.5 billion. The designed-estimated documentation is at the final stage.
In addition, the modernization of the bridge across the river Tysa at the checkpoint Tysa-Záhony is a priority.
According to Ukravtodor, the start of the implementation of these projects is scheduled for 2021.
In general, in 2020, some 282 km of roads were repaired under the Big Construction program in Zakarpattia region.
As reported, Minister of Foreign Economy and Foreign Affairs of Hungary Peter Szijjarto confirmed the allocation of EU50 million to Ukraine for the development of road infrastructure in Zakarpattia region.
A new airport will be constructed in Zakarpattia in two or three years, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said during his working trip to Zakarpattia region.
“We decided that the today’s issue is to make the airport [Uzhgorod] operate, we plan to restore this airport in any case, so that it is good, modern, viable. As for the geographical location of this airport, we all understand that it is impossible to construct a large aviation hub at this place and to extend the runway. Therefore, I know that we will construct a fundamental international modern airport in Zakarpattia. Where will it be? We have three options,” Zelensky said at a briefing in Zakarpattia region on Friday.
The president said that the money for the construction of the new airport in Zakarpattia is budgeted for 2021.
“We are already putting money into the 2021 budget, so that we have the initial work on the construction of this airport done. I think that we will construct the new airport in about two or three years. Now the most important thing is that people will have the opportunity connect not only within Ukraine, but also travel around the world,” Zelensky said.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has appointed Ihor Bondarenko head of Zakarpattia Regional State Administration.
“To appoint Bondarenko Ihor Samoilovych head of Zakarpattia Regional State Administration,” according to presidential decree No. 492 of July 5.
By another decree, Zelensky dismissed Ivan Duran from the post of acting head of Zakarpattia Regional State Administration.
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