Construction has begun on a plant for processing basalt and manufacturing finished basalt products by BF “Zavod” within the “BF Terminal” industrial park in Zakarpattia.
“As part of the ”BF Terminal” industrial park, a plant with an area of over 37,000 square meters will be built, equipped with modern machinery and utilizing innovative technologies, which will provide over 120 guaranteed jobs with high salaries. This investment of over 30 million euros will ensure a stable annual inflow of up to 10 million hryvnias into the local budget and strengthen the community’s capacity for sustainable development. At the same time, the state will receive a strategic product for domestic use and export,” Deputy Head of the Presidential Office Viktor Mykyta reported on Telegram.
According to Vitaliy Kindrativ, Deputy Minister of Economy, Environment, and Agriculture of Ukraine, the development of “BF Terminal” in Zakarpattia is an example of how the development of industrial parks is shaping a new economic reality, in which state incentives help launch modern production facilities. “Thanks to government incentives, the Berehove district is gradually transforming into a powerful industrial hub working toward the recovery of Ukraine’s economy,” he emphasized.
He noted that government funds are being directed toward key infrastructure, primarily the construction of a new railway access track at the Batyevo station. “This is essentially a transport artery that will connect the industrial facilities of the park to the Ukrzaliznytsia network and open direct access to European markets. Additionally, major repairs are being carried out on the exit ramp from the highway,” he said.
In addition, state funding covers the full cycle of energy supply, specifically the construction of a new 110 kV high-voltage power line, the construction of a modern “BF Terminal” substation, and the reconstruction of the existing outdoor switchgear. “This creates a reserve of energy stability not only for the industrial park but also for the entire regional power grid,” says Kindrativ.
According to Mikita, railway tracks and electrical infrastructure have already been built at a total cost of 316.6 million UAH. Approximately 148 million UAH of this amount was financed from the state budget.
As reported, at the end of 2025, “BF Terminal” in Zakarpattia Oblast, among others, received state funding for infrastructure development, specifically 11.908 million UAH for the major repair of the exit ramp from the highway.
Law enforcement officers in Transcarpathia uncovered a cocaine distribution scheme, in which the criminals disguised the drugs as washing powder and sent them to “customers” by mail, according to the Office of the Prosecutor General.
“According to the investigation, a 27-year-old resident of Zakarpattia organized a channel for supplying drugs to Ukraine and recruited accomplices to help him,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement on its Telegram channel on Thursday.
The agency notes that the accomplices helped store the goods in a warehouse, pack them into bags, and prepare them for sale.
“Cocaine disguised as washing powder was sent to their ‘customers’ by mail to various regions of Ukraine, in particular to Kyiv,” the prosecutor’s office said.
According to the Office of the Prosecutor General, the sale of six pressed briquettes of cocaine, weighing about 1 kg each, has been documented. The approximate value of this on the “black market” reaches hundreds of thousands of US dollars.
“During an attempt to sell another batch of narcotics, law enforcement officers exposed one of the members of the criminal group, and another in his own home in Uzhgorod,” the agency said.
As a result of searches in the apartments, warehouses, and vehicles of the aforementioned individuals, narcotic and psychotropic substances were seized: cocaine, methamphetamine, mephedrone, as well as computer equipment, mobile phones, packaging materials, postal receipts, cash, and draft documentation.
Under the procedural guidance of the Transcarpathian Specialized Prosecutor’s Office in the field of defense of the Western region, they were notified of suspicion of illegal storage, shipment, and sale of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances, or their analogues on an especially large scale (Part 3 of Article 307 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine).
Pre-trial investigation – USBU in Zakarpattia region based on materials from USBU in Zakarpattia region and USR in Zakarpattia region DSR NPU.
The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) has allowed German logistics company Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) to buy the intermodal terminal of Eurobridge Intermodal Terminal LLC, located in Batyevo, Zakarpattia region. The relevant permission was published on the AMCU website on August 7.
As previously reported, the new terminal will operate under the name HHLA Eurobridge Batiovo as a joint venture between HHLA International GmbH and Ukrainian investment company Fortior Capital LLC. HHLA will acquire a controlling stake and, together with its subsidiary METRANS, will continue to develop the terminal.
It is noted that the HHLA Eurobridge Batiovo terminal is located near the border with the EU at the intersection of several international railway corridors, in particular, Ukraine, Hungary, and Slovakia. Thanks to its access to standard (1,435 mm) and broad (1,520 mm) gauge tracks, the terminal is a good solution for connecting European and Ukrainian logistics networks.
The owner of the Fortior Capital group and beneficiary of the Fortior Finance venture funds, Fortior 207, and Intermodal Terminal Evrobridge LLC is Nikolai Nesterenko, former director of new business development at SCM, who in 2021 bought out Fortior Capital’s stake from his partner Alexander Kamyshin, who was then appointed head of Ukrzaliznytsia.
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.
