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Onur Group has halted gold mining at the Zhovtovodska gold-ore area in the Dnipropetrovsk region due to the deposit’s lack of prospects. The company anticipated extracting about 4.5 grams of gold per ton of ore, but the actual yield was only 1.4 grams per ton. In 2021, the Onur subsidiary even filed a lawsuit with the State Service for Geology and Mineral Resources, seeking compensation for discrepancies in reserve data. However, in April 2025, the company withdrew the lawsuit and

The top ten companies in the construction sector generated over ₴49B in revenue in 2024, which is 41% more than in 2023. The combined profit of the industry leaders surged by 60%, reaching ₴3.09B ($74M). A significant portion of the leaders’ income comes from five companies specializing in road construction, accounting for 75% or ₴36.9B. Four additional companies focus on residential and non-residential building construction, contributing 20% of revenue. One company in the ranking operates in the niche of exploratory

The driver of the construction sector’s growth in the first half of the year was engineering structures, where the increase in construction was 34% in annual terms, and non-residential construction, which grew by 9.5%. At the same time, housing construction decreased by 5.9%. The resumption of construction began in March. This month, the volume of construction work increased immediately by 133.1% compared to the same month in 2022. However, further growth slowed: April – 90.6%, May – 62.4%, June –

The Ukrainian company Automagistral-Pivden signed a contract to construct a section of the strategic M3 highway between Chisinau and the Danube port of Giurgiulesti. The EBRD will finance the project. In 2006, Ukraine transferred 430 meters of the Danube and the Prut River coast to Moldova and opened access to the Black Sea to its neighbor. Thus the Danube port of Giurgiulesti was formed, from which a dense flow of trucks now traavels to the country’s capital. Since 2019, 85

The total state budget expenditures for road construction in 2021 amounted to UAH 132B ($4.7B), almost three times more than planned at the beginning of the year, announced the Economic Strategy Center.  Together with local budget expenditures, the total sum was UAH 178B ($6.36B), 40% more than Ukraine’s expenses for defense (UAH 128B). In addition, experts have calculated that the state budget revenues were 18% higher last year than planned in January (expenses increased by 13%), which allowed allocating additional

 A new highway connecting the Zakarpattia region with the Lviv region will be built soon, said Myroslav Biletsky, First Deputy Head of the Zakarpattia Regional State Administration. The road will be constructed within the “Small Carpathian Circle” project framework, implemented under the presidential “Large Construction” Program. The length of the new road on the Verkhniy Studeny route, the border of the Zakarpattia and Lviv regions, will be 4.2 km long. The project’s estimated cost is UAH 500M ($17.6M).

 Zhytomyr has announced a tender for the reconstruction of the Northern Bypass, which is part of the Kyiv-Chop highway, announced the Zhytomyr Road Service. The construction section runs between Hlybochytsia and Ivanivka villages in the Zhytomyr district, with a total length of 22 kilometers. Previously, the construction had been suspended due to the termination of the contract with the Chinese company Sinohydro Corporation Limited two years ago due to a breach of contract and slow pace of work.

The EBRD and the IFC will work with the Ukrainian government to attract private-sector investment and improve the country’s infrastructure while creating jobs and accelerating economic recovery. According to the government, properly structured PPP projects can help Ukraine’s road sector attract investments worth around $9 bln and upgrade 422 km of roads. In addition, the EBRD and IFC will help Ukravtodor mobilize financing and expertise to prepare comprehensive projects that will support the maintenance and expansion of the road capacity

said Deputy Chairman of the State Agency Andriy Ivko. He also added that the government has already approved the procedure for selecting contractors. The Deputy Chairman of Ukravtodor noted that the Kyiv bypass road consists of seven separate sections. The tender for constructing the first site has already started, reports ukrinform.

Encouraged by steps taken by Ukraine’s state road agency Ukravtodor, the Board of Directors of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has approved a new €190 million loan tranche for further improvements to the country’s road infrastructure. Part of a €450 mln package, the tranche will finance the upgrade of the M-05 Kyiv-Odesa Road in the Kirovohrad, Mykolaiv, and Odesa regions, says EBRD press release.

Ukravtodor, within the framework of a project with the EBRD and the EIB, announced the first three tenders to repair three sections of M-05 Kyiv-Odesa in the Cherkasy region. According to the Ministry of Infrastructure, the overhaul will be financed for loans from banks within the project “Ukraine – road corridors” / European roads of Ukraine III, “implemented jointly with Ukraine.

Designed to take heavy traffic of fully loaded grain trucks, this network of cement roads will triple in size in three years, Andriy Ivko, said Ukravtodor’s road development director (Interfax-Ukraine).

, the highway agency reported on Facebook. “Unfortunately, having crossed the borders of our state, it is expected that you meet a pothole,” Ukravtodor wrote. Almost all the work this year is being undertaken in Zakarpattia, repairing road connections to Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania. Last year, 150 km of border roads were repaired. By 2023, the plan is to repair 600 km.

, Ukravtodor, the state highway agency, reports on Facebook. “The total length of facilities on which work has begun is 1,960 km,” the agency says. “The current plan for 2021 provides for the construction, reconstruction, overhaul and current average repair of 4,500 km and 150 bridges.” Last year saw the rebuilding of 3,900 km of national roads and 2,000 km of local roads. Known as ‘Big Construction’ the multi-billion-dollar program is a centerpiece of the Zelenskiy administration.

one goal of the EBRD-Ukravtodor partnership is to create by this summer a joint stock company within Ukravtodor capable of generating capital by issuing infrastructure bonds. With international demand strong for Ukraine hryvnia bonds, planners believe foreign demand could extend beyond paying for international highways to pay for regional roads. Last year, the Cabinet of Ministers extended $840 million in state guarantees to Ukravtodor. The agency sold $500 million worth of bonds to three state banks – Ukreximbank, Ukrgasbank, and

The P-66 runs from Demyno-Oleksandrivka, the northern border checkpoint with Russia, 240 km south to the front line area, near Lysychansk. Partly due to old bridges, some dating back to the 1950s, the average speed on the road is 50 km/hour.