Odrex Medical Center (Dom Meditsiny LLC, Odessa) has undergone an inspection for compliance with licensing conditions, and the Ministry of Health has confirmed its compliance, according to the clinic’s CEO Tigran Arutyunyan.
“In January 2026, a commission from the Ukrainian Ministry of Health conducted an unscheduled inspection of Odrex Medical Center’s compliance with licensing conditions. Based on the results of the inspection, the Ministry of Health confirmed that Odrex Medical Center fully complies with licensing conditions, operates within the law, and has no violations,” he wrote on his Facebook page.
Arutyunyan specified that the inspection lasted three days and covered key areas of the hospital’s activities.
He noted that “Odrex continues to provide medical care as planned.”
As reported, two doctors from the Odrex clinic were accused of causing the death of its 62-year-old patient, businessman Adnan Kivan, who was undergoing treatment for cancer at the Odrex medical center from May to October 2024. He died on October 27, 2024.
During the investigation on October 24, 2025, investigators handed over suspicions to the head of surgical department No. 2, surgeon-oncologist Vitaly Rusakov, and clinical oncologist and chemotherapist Marina Bilotserkovskaya.
The clinic officially expressed its willingness to cooperate with the investigation and called on the media to avoid unproven accusations against its doctors in the patient’s death and to wait for the official conclusions of the investigation. At the same time, the clinic believes that this investigation is of a commissioned nature.
For its part, the Ministry of Health launched an unscheduled inspection of the Odrex clinic after this incident.
Ukrainian athletes have already received 20 licenses in five sports for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo (Italy), according to the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine (NOC).
“Exactly one month until the start of the main event of the quadrennium! At the moment, Ukrainian athletes have won 20 licenses in five sports (biathlon — 10, cross-country skiing — 5, alpine skiing — 2, short track — 2, figure skating — 1),” the NOC said in a statement.
It is noted that there are still 12 days left until the end of the qualification period — until January 18.
As reported, at the 2026 Winter Olympics (February 6-22) in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo (Italy), athletes will compete for 195 medals in 16 Olympic sports.
The president of the National Olympic Committee (NOC) of Ukraine, Vadym Guttsait, expects Ukraine to perform successfully at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo (Italy), as it did at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris (France). Ukraine won 12 medals and ranked 22nd in the medal count at the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
Ukraine supports the proposal of Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani to establish a truce during the 2026 Winter Olympics.
Minister of Youth and Sports Matvey Bedny expects the “necessary minimum” number of licenses for Ukrainian athletes to participate in the 2026 Olympics in Italy, and also says that there is hope for success in freestyle skiing and biathlon.
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has revoked the license of insurance company “Professional Insurance” (Kyiv) to conduct insurance activities due to violations of licensing requirements.
According to the NBU website, the board’s decision to revoke the license was made on December 30, 2025, and came into effect on the same day after its publication.
From the date of entry into force of the decision, the insurer loses the right to conclude insurance contracts and extend the term of existing contracts, as well as to conclude new contracts or make changes to existing ones that lead to an increase in obligations to clients for the relevant classes of insurance.
Earlier that day, the National Bank refused to allow IC “Professional Insurance” to conclude written agreements on measures to eliminate previously identified violations of the requirements for the authorization of financial service providers and the conditions for their activities. The regulator explained its refusal by saying that such agreements do not provide sufficient confidence in the timely and complete elimination of this violation.
In its decision, the NBU called the insurance company’s registration in August 2024 of an increase in its authorized capital from UAH 8 million to UAH 48 million without obtaining the regulator’s consent a violation. The document states that the owners of Professional Insurance, Roman Kuzmenko and Yevgen Vasilenko, bought domestic government bonds, then sold these bonds to other insurers, and used the proceeds to increase the authorized capital. However, the National Bank recognized that the sources of the funds were not confirmed and therefore refused to approve both the increase in the authorized capital and its reduction back to UAH 8 million due to a violation of prudential requirements.
The company’s attempts at the end of 2025 to reach an agreement with the National Bank on the conclusion of written agreements were unsuccessful.
Professional Insurance Insurance Company was established in 2007 and has 44 licenses to conduct insurance activities.
According to YouControl, the company’s net earned insurance premiums for the first nine months of this year amounted to UAH 2.4 million, compared to UAH 0.71 million for the same period in 2024, and net profit amounted to UAH 4.80 million, compared to UAH 0.93 million.
After a year and a half of investigation, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) stated that Trustee Plus provides payment services in the country without the appropriate license. The regulator has ordered the company to cease some of its operations related to money transfers without opening a bank account and P2P payments in euros, according to a statement from the NBU.
The press service noted that such activities require a separate permit under Ukrainian law.
Trustee stated that it considers the regulator’s claims to be partially unfounded and insists on the legality of its work through partners in the EU. According to Trustee CEO Vadym Hrusha, the National Bank withdrew five of the seven initial claims, while the rest relate exclusively to the P2P platform and euro transfers.
“The NBU’s decision sets a dangerous precedent for the entire market, effectively banning P2P interaction between users. At the same time, customer assets are safe, and the service continues to operate in the EU in full compliance with the law,” he emphasized.
The company recalled that back in the spring of 2025, it stopped registering new users from Ukraine, but the terms of service remained the same for existing customers.
Experts note that the situation surrounding Trustee Plus demonstrates the lack of a clear regulatory framework for crypto and fintech services in Ukraine. The precedent set by the largest platform could be a signal to other players about the risks of doing business without a specific law on virtual assets. In the long term, this could slow down the development of the crypto market in the country and encourage Ukrainian companies to move their activities to EU jurisdictions, where the rules are more transparent.
The State Service of Ukraine for Transport Safety (DSBT, Ukrtransbezpeka) issued 176 licenses for passenger bus transportation in January-June this year, compared to 540 last year, 823 in 2023, and 783 in 2022, said the head of Ukrtransbezpeka, Mykyta Lagunin, in an interview with the agency “Interfax-Ukraine.”
“First, the market is already saturated. Secondly, at the beginning of the full-scale invasion, a simplified procedure for obtaining licenses was adopted. But in 2024, this forced norm was revised to take into account European integration aspirations, so there was a return to stricter conditions for issuing licenses,” he explained the dynamics of the reduction in the issuance of licenses.
Lahunin recalled that after the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022, air traffic was blocked, rail transport also has certain restrictions, so there was a surge in bus transportation.
He noted that Ukrtransbezpeka is constantly working to create services that help passengers feel safe and understand who is transporting them today, for which purpose it is opening all its databases. Among other things, the head of the service advised using the Register of Issued and Revoked Licenses on the single state portal of open data (https://middleware.dsbt.gov.ua/lc/licenses).
He also reminded that a service https://autobus.gov.ua/ has been created, where you can buy a ticket directly from a carrier that has all the necessary documents: a license and the appropriate permits to operate on this route.
“In addition, there is a convenient service for checking licensees by vehicle number (https://autobus.gov.ua/). You see a bus, enter its license plate number, and immediately receive all the information: whether it has a license or not,” Lagunin gave another piece of advice.
He noted that for the convenience of passengers and to create equal, convenient, and efficient conditions in the market for carriers, Ukrtransbezpeka is trying to digitize all of its service functions as much as possible.
“Our main body is the Unified Information System Complex, known as EKIS, part of which is EKP, the electronic carrier’s office.
We are focused on developing this tool: we are constantly improving it, adding new modules, and engaging in ongoing dialogue with businesses to get feedback on what else we can improve,” added the head of Ukrtransbezpeka.
As an example of the fight for fair rules in the market, Lagunin cited recent changes to passenger transport regulations, which will come into force in three months, in September this year. According to him, from now on, irregular carriers will be allowed to operate no more than twice a week with one vehicle on one route.
“If you want more, go and get a permit. We have developed an electronic module. The system will not allow you to enter information about a trip more times than required by law. And if a carrier has not entered this trip and is providing transportation, it is automatically considered a violator because it has not declared its intention to transport passengers on this route,” explained the head of Ukrtransbezpeka.
According to the Register of Issued and Revoked Licenses on the service’s website, it currently contains 12,392 entries on valid licenses for passenger bus transportation, of which 3,095 are for international transportation.
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has revoked the license of FC “Fraser” (Kyiv) to operate as a financial company providing funds and bank metals on credit and factoring, according to the NBU website. This decision was made by the Committee for Supervision and Regulation of Non-Bank Financial Services Markets on July 7, 2025.
According to information, in June of this year, the NBU took measures to conduct a scheduled inspection of the aforementioned financial company. When attempting to carry out the inspection, it was established that Frazier FC was not located at the address specified in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, Individual Entrepreneurs, and Public Organizations. This made it impossible to conduct the inspection and is grounds for revoking the financial company’s license.
The information emphasizes that, as of July 8, 2025, FC “Fraser” is not authorized to provide financial services (in particular, to conclude new contracts, extend the term of existing contracts, and increase the amount of obligations under them).
FC “Fraser” was registered in March 2018. Its authorized capital is UAH 6.5 million.
