J&Y LLC (Zaporizhzhia), which is engaged in restoring communications in affected and de-occupied territories, invested 67.04 million in the first half of 2025 in the purchase of components for the mobile network core, according to a report by the National Commission for the Regulation of Electronic Communications and Postal Services (NCRC) on its website.
According to the regulator, in the first half of 2024, the company invested UAH 25.1 million in telecommunications, but at that time, the report did not provide additional details on how the funds would be used.
On its official website, J&Y stated that it is implementing 3G and 4G technologies to restore communications in de-occupied territories. The company announced the restoration of more than 10,000 km of networks in de-occupied territories and the provision of communications to more than 1 million people.
In addition, according to its information, more than 700 base stations have been modernized to support 4G communications, and the construction of more than 2,350 base stations is planned.
The website also states that the company is the official distributor of MikroTik/RouterBOARD products in Ukraine.
The Work.ua job portal states that the company has vacancies for an electrical communications engineer and a fiber optic cable installer in Zaporizhia, and for an occupational safety engineer, recruiter, and procurement specialist in Kyiv, with salaries ranging from 30,000 to 50,000 hryvnia. According to information from the regulator, in January-June of this year, the company employed an average of 64 people in the telecommunications sector.
According to the NCC, in the first half of this year, J& Y received UAH 2.39 million in revenue from the provision of telecommunications services, of which UAH 2.26 million came from services using communication lines with a speed of at least 2 Mbit/s, amounting to UAH 2.26 million. By the middle of the year, it had 1,200 lines (points) of fixed access to the Internet.
According to YouControl, the founders of J&Y are Alina Gorbunova with a 36% stake and Irina Srebrodolska and Valery Edelev with 32% stakes each. At the end of last year, the company’s unfinished capital investments amounted to UAH 237.8 million, while net income from the sale of services last year amounted to UAH 5.6 million.
According to the NCC, as of the middle of the first half of this year, there were three major operators providing 3G and 4G communication services in Ukraine: Kyivstar, Vodafone Ukraine, and lifecell, with revenues of UAH 12.17 billion, UAH 9.55 billion, and UAH 4.52 billion, respectively.
In addition, TriMob LLC reported small revenues from the provision of 3G and 4G services – UAH 4 million, and Laikamobile Ukraine – UAH 1.5 million, while at International Telecommunications LLC and Telesystems of Ukraine PJSC, they amounted to less than UAH 10,000.
Zaporizhia enterprises of the mining and metallurgical group Metinvest – Zaporizhstal, Zaporizhogneupor, Zaporizhkox, and Zaporizhzhya Foundry and Mechanical Plant (ZLMP) – increased their transfers to budgets of all levels by 20% in January-June this year compared to the same period last year, totaling almost UAH 1.7 billion in taxes and fees.
According to a press release issued by the group on Wednesday, Metinvest Group companies also remain among the largest taxpayers in Zaporizhia. Tax revenues to local budgets for the first half of 2025 amounted to over UAH 543 million, which is 10% higher than in the first six months of 2024.
In the structure of taxes and fees for this period, the largest in terms of volume were single income tax and single social contribution payments. It should be noted that in April 2025, Metinvest raised salaries for employees of production and service enterprises, including in Zaporizhia, by up to 20%.
A significant share of deductions also falls on environmental and land taxes, as well as military levies.
Taking into account associated companies and joint ventures, Metinvest Group paid UAH 9.3 billion in taxes and fees to budgets of all levels in Ukraine in the first half of 2025.
Zaporizhstal is a joint venture of the Metinvest Group, whose main shareholders are System Capital Management (71.24%) and Smart Steel Limited (23.76%). Metinvest Holding LLC is the managing company of the Metinvest Group.
The state-owned Ukrgasbank (Kyiv) has granted Zaporizhia a loan of UAH 300 million for the creation of distributed energy generation facilities and other energy-saving measures, according to a statement posted on its website on Monday.
The bank told the Interfax-Ukraine news agency that the loan is for a period of seven years.
According to a statement on the bank’s website, the funds will be used to build distributed energy generation facilities in the city and implement energy-saving measures at key critical infrastructure facilities.
It is also noted that the loan, which will be received by municipal enterprises and institutions of the city, will enable them to ensure their own electricity production for technological and domestic needs, to function stably during power outages, to power critical infrastructure facilities and social institutions, and to use the heat energy produced for the needs of residents within the created energy islands.
According to Boris Rozsokha, deputy director of the economic development department of the Zaporizhzhia City Council and head of the energy management and investment department, whose words are quoted in the report, the use of cogeneration plants will ensure more efficient use of fuel, reduce carbon and other harmful emissions into the atmosphere, and will also minimize losses inherent in traditional electricity generation.
As reported, state-owned Ukreximbank, Oschabank, and Ukrgasbank (all based in Kyiv) issued loans ranging from two to five years for approximately UAH 2.04 billion in the equivalent of five city councils at floating rates, including UAH 200 million to the Zaporizhzhia City Council.
The IAEA Director General announced the end of his “long-awaited” visit to the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) and the establishment of a permanent presence of the agency at the plant.
“I have just completed the first tour of the key locations we wanted to see in this first approach to the entire facility. Of course, there is still a lot to be done. My team remains, and most importantly, we establish our permanent presence from the IAEA here,” he said in a video from ZNPP posted on his Twitter.
Earlier, Energoatom, which includes Zaporizhia NPP, reported that as of 18:00 on Thursday, Grossi had left the station. Most of the members of the delegation left the station with him.
According to Energoatom, five representatives of the IAEA mission remained at the ZNPP, who are unloading the equipment they brought and will continue to work at the plant.
The IAEA mission arrived at the ZNPP captured by Russian troops on September 1, approximately after 14:00. According to the statements of the occupying authorities, the IAEA experts who left the station “should leave the territory controlled by the Russian Federation before 20:00.”
A mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has arrived in Zaporizhia, Energoatom reported.
“Today, August 31, at about 15:00, the mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency arrived in Zaporizhia,” Energoatom’s Telegram channel says on Wednesday.
As reported, Minister of Energy Herman Haluschenko said Wednesday morning that the IAEA mission had gone to the Zaporizhia nuclear power plant occupied by Russian troops. On Tuesday, IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi met with President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The distance from Zaporizhia to Enerhodar, where the ZNPP is located, is about 120 km.
Head of Zaporizhia Regional Military Administration Oleksandr Starukh has said that as of midday on Wednesday, the radiation background in the region remains within the natural range and does not pose a threat to human health.
“Zaporizhia Regional Center for Disease Control and Prevention of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine informs that the radiation background in Zaporizhia region remains unchanged and does not pose a threat to the life and health of the population … The gamma background … does not exceed the natural background characteristic of these territories,” Starukh wrote on the Telegram channel.
He listed the level of gamma background in different settlements of the region, it is in the range from 10.2 to 12 microroentgens per hour; in Energodar, where Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant is located – 10.6 microroentgens per hour.
