The leader has changed in 6 regions
OpenDataBot has updated its annual ranking of Ukraine’s largest employers in each region, based on an analysis of financial reporting data from Ukrainian companies. The leader has changed in 6 regions, and 8 companies from the ranking have been included in the OpenDataBot Index 2026.
The largest employer in the capital and in Ukraine as a whole remains, as usual, Ukrzaliznytsia — 169,952 employees. Over the year, the number of employees there decreased by 4.9%. Ukrzaliznytsia is also among the top ten companies in the OpenDataBot Index in the transport and logistics sector.
The leader in the Dnipropetrovsk region remains ATB-Market—46,649 employees. Over the past year, the company’s workforce increased by 1.2%. The company belongs to the ATB Group and is also included in the list of businesses featured in the OpenDataBot Index in the retail sector. It is worth noting that ATB is one of the country’s largest employers overall.
In Poltava Oblast, Aurora (Vygidna Pokupka LLC) leads the way with 14,590 employees. Over the past year, the company managed to increase its workforce by 16%. In addition, Aurora is among the top ten businesses in the OpenDataBot Index for the retail sector.
Zaporizhstal, which is also part of the OpenDataBot Index, became the leader in the Zaporizhzhia region. The company employs 8,039 people. Compared to 2024, the workforce decreased by 6.3%. The company is also part of Rinat Akhmetov’s financial and industrial SCM Group.
Volyn is in the spotlight this year—WOG (Petrol Contract LLC), part of the Continium Group, has 5,490 employees and showed record workforce growth of nearly 1.7 times. In response to a request from OpenDataBot, WOG explained that the company underwent a consolidation of legal entities last year. Therefore, the increase in headcount is related more to organizational changes than to a real increase in the number of jobs. This allowed the company to become the new regional leader, displacing Kromberg & Schubert Ukraine Ltd. WOG also made it into this year’s OpenDataBot Index in the retail sector.
In the Kyiv region, the largest employer is the Fora chain of stores, part of the Fozzy Group, with 9,462 employees. Over the year, the workforce grew by 3%. The company also made it onto this year’s OpenDataBot Index in the retail sector.
Vinnytsia Poultry Farm leads in Vinnytsia Oblast and employs 6,636 people: +11.3% over the year. The company is part of the MHP Group and also took first place in the agriculture sector in this year’s OpenDataBot Index.
In Lviv Oblast, the largest employer is OKKO-Drive with 6,579 employees. The number of employees decreased by 2% over the year. The company is part of the OKKO Group.
In Zhytomyr Oblast, another participant in the OpenDataBot Index leads the way—the UPG gas station chain (Ukrpaletsystem LLC)—with 4,154 employees. Over the year, the company increased its workforce by 8%. The company is part of the UPG Group.
In the Kirovohrad region, the largest employer this year is the Faino Market chain (Veresen Plus LLC), which has 3,569 employees. Over the year, the number of employees increased by 7%.
The Ternopil region is represented by the cable network factory Se Bordnetz-Ukraine with 3,215 employees: -9% over the year.
Flextronics TZOV is the largest employer in Zakarpattia. The company’s workforce decreased by 6% over the year to 2,408 employees.
In the Chernivtsi region, the Taystra Group retail chain has been the leader for the second year in a row, with 1,163 employees. At the same time, the number of employees decreased by 6% over the year.
In the Kherson region, Taurt Medical (Medicgroup LLC) is the leader this year. The company employs 426 people: a 6% decrease over the year.
In 10 regions of Ukraine, the largest employers are companies that supply the country with electricity:
Deputy Prime Minister for Recovery of Ukraine, Minister of Community and Territorial Development Oleksii Kuleba has agreed with Slovenian Finance Minister Klemen Boštjančič on a number of new projects to rebuild frontline regions.
“We have agreed on new projects in the areas of water supply, energy efficiency, and municipal infrastructure for frontline regions,” Kuleba wrote on Telegram on Saturday.
The deputy prime minister noted that they also discussed developing cooperation in rebuilding and supporting communities, attracting Slovenian businesses to Ukrainian projects, and strengthening technical cooperation between institutions in both countries.
All settlements in Kharkiv Region have been de-energized due to shelling by the Russian occupants, with six hits on critical infrastructure facilities recorded, the head of the Kharkiv regional military administration, Oleh Sinehubov, said.
“We had two arrivals in Kharkiv, four objects in the Chuguev district. All of these are objects of critical energy infrastructure…. There is no light neither in Kharkiv, nor in the region, nor in any of the settlements”, – said Sinegubov on air ICTV.
According to him, the damage is now being studied, after which it will be possible to talk about the terms of their elimination.
Sinegubov predicted that most likely, there will be no electricity until morning, but noted that these terms are very approximate, because experts are still analyzing the nature of the damage. In addition, the situation is complicated by the newly declared airborne alarm, which does not allow to start the restoration work in full.
By order of the chief dispatcher of NPC Ukrenergo, power supply to some industrial enterprises and household consumers was temporarily limited in Kyiv and the Kyiv region, the duration of the outages will be about two hours, DTEK Grids said.
“In order to maintain the integrity of the energy system, NPC Ukrenergo has decided to temporarily limit power supply in Kyiv and the region. With this order, Ukrenergo turned to DTEK Kyiv Electric Grids and DTEK Kyiv Regional Electric Grids,” DTEK Grids said in a release.
The outages are expected to last around two hours to balance the country’s power grid, according to the release.
Average monthly wage by region in Jan 2022, UAH
SSC of Ukraine
Ratio of fertility and mortality by region in Jan-July 2021
SSC of Ukraine
