Europe is exploring options to restore its military power in light of rising Russian rhetoric. According to the EU’s top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, discussions have intensified on how to boost defense spending, with joint financing increasingly becoming part of the conversation. The bloc may ... #DefenseIndustryEU #EUbudget #EUdefense #investments #KajaKallas
Where in Ukraine did investors put their money in 2024? Last year, there were no investment deals in Ukraine worth over $200M, whereas in 2023, the largest M&A deal reached a value of $500M, according to analysts. Foreign investors accounted for 45% of... #agroUkraine #Construction #ForeignInvestor #investments #MergersAcquisitions #MiningUkraine #UkraineEconomy
McKinsey recorded a recovery in the private equity market last year. After two years of uncertainty, the private equity (PE) market began to show signs of recovery in 2024. The main drivers were an increase in the number of deals, a rise in investment exits, and a decr... #ForeignInvestor #investments #McKinsey #PrivateEquityMarket
Demand at primary government bond auctions has dropped to a low point. On February 18, the Ministry of Finance raised ₴249.42M for the state budget at an auction for domestic government bonds, which is ₴770.58M less than the previous week. These are the results from the ... #BondAuctionUkraine #BondSalesUkraine #financeUkraine #investments #OVDP #UkraineBond
Austrian Kreisel has finished construction of a €14M building materials plant in the Lviv region. Kreisel, a company from the Fixit Gruppe concern, completed the construction of a building materials and systems plant in the village of Pisky (Lviv region); total project investment amounts to almost... #Austria #BuildingMaterials #Germany #investments #KreiselFixit #Layher #LvivRegion #Ternopil
Metinvest is doubling its investment in iron ore assets and allocating a substantial amount of funds toward developing renewable energy. In 2025, Metinvest Group plans to invest ₴5.7B ($135M) in the development of the Kryvyi Rih mining and processing plants. Compared to 2024, the company will increase its investment in iron ore assets ... #EnergyIndependence #investments #IronOre #MetallurgyUkraine #Metinvest #MiningIndustry
Strengthening economic cooperation with the Gulf countries: Which Ukrainian industries are attractive for Middle Eastern investors? Ukrainian government officials recently met with representatives from leading UAE companies, including port operators, investment firms, agricultural businesses, and trading firms interested in partne... #agroUkraine #ContinentalFarmersGroup #investments #ProcessingIndustry #Salic #SaudiArabia #UAE
Ukrainian BGV will collaborate with American partners in critical raw materials. Ukrainian company BGV Group Management has signed cooperation agreements with three international partners in the US to extract critical raw materials. Since 2015, the BGV Group has invested approxima... #BGV #CriticalMetals #GraphiteMining #investments #Kirovohradregion #Metso #MiningIndustry
Double Tap Investments has invested up to $300,000 in Ukrainian drone developer Black Forest Systems. The Finnish-Ukrainian investment company has chosen to support the Ukrainian drone startup Black Forest Systems. The specific investment amount remains undisclosed, with the typical DTI check ranging ... #BlackForestSystems #DefenseIndustryUkraine #DefenseStartups #DoubleTapInvestments #DroneProduction #investments
The state is investing billions in domestic production through Made in Ukraine. The Cabinet of Ministers is financing state programs through the Made in Ukraine economic initiative, which contributed to a 0.64% GDP growth last year. In January the government transferred ₴1.5B to ... #AgriculturalMachinery #IndustrialParks #investments #MadeInUkraine #SupportBusiness #ukrainianbusiness
What could Ukraine gain from a mineral deal with the US? Mykhailo Zhernov, the top manager at American mining company Critical Metals Corp, noted that launching mining and processing projects in Ukraine will require hundreds of millions of dollars in invest... #CriticalMetals #CriticalMetalsCorp #investments #MiningIndustry #MiningUkraine
The EIB invests €2B in Ukraine’s recovery through the Ukraine Facility program. The European Investment Bank (EIB) will allocate €2B to finance recovery projects in Ukraine using the EU’s financial instrument, the Ukraine Facility. This was discussed during a meeting among repres... #EIB #investments #JASPERS #UkraineFacility #UkraineReconstruction #UkraineRecovery
Ukrainians have shifted their investment preferences from housing to land. In 2024, notaries certified 452,217 real estate purchase and sale agreements, 12% more than the previous year but 28% less than before the full-scale Russian invasion. Analysts noted that 60% of all a... #eOselya #investments #LandPlots #LandSales #LandUkraine #MortgageProgram #MortgagesUkraine
For the first time since the start of the war, a private Western fund has bought Ukrainian real estate. Dutch real estate fund Arcona Property Fund (APF) has purchased a land plot in the center of Kyiv from a British company, Secure Property Investment and Development (SPDI). This deal is the first purc... #ArconaPropertyFund #ForeignInvestor #investments #kyiv #LvivSquare
The OKKO Group has started building the first hotels at the GORO Mountain Resort. Construction of the OKKO Group’s first hotel complex has begun at the GORO Mountain Resort. The first complex consists of three hotels with 415 rooms. The total area is 48,000 square meters, of ... #GOROMountainResort #HotelsConstruction #investments #LvivRegion #okko #SkiResorts #VitalyAntonov
UkraineInvest will provide support for a large-scale investment in the Kyiv region’s first glass factory. The State Investment Promotion Office, UkraineInvest, is backing a project with significant investment to build NovaSklo, which would be Ukraine’s largest float glass manufacturing plant. Accord... #GlassFactory #GlassProduction #IgorLiski #InvestmentNannies #investments #NovaSklo #UkraineInvest
A Ukrainian oil trader is actively investing to diversify its business, concentrating on the agricultural sector and electric vehicle infrastructure. The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMCU) has approved the Cypriot company Vi.An Holding Limited’s acquisition of the Borshchiv Agrarian Company based in the Lviv region. The beneficial owner... #BorshchivAgroCompany #Galnaftogaz #investments #okko #TOKA #VitalyAntonov
Metinvest plans to invest a record amount to modernize the Kametstal plant. In 2025, mining and metallurgical group Metinvest will invest over ₴2.5B ($60M) in upgrading the Kametstal plant, established at the facilities of the Dnipro Metallurgical Combine in the Dnipropetrovs... #Dnipropetrovsk #investments #Kametstal #MetallurgyUkraine #Metinvest
The occupied territories hold minerals that are worth trillions; Ukraine will not give these resources away but will allow its allies to earn profit on reconstruction. The value of Ukrainian minerals in the Russian-occupied territories is estimated at trillions of dollars, which means that sanctions that lead to Russian financial losses of $10-20B in specific sector... #CriticalMetals #investments #MineralMining #MiningIndustry #OccupiedTerritoriesOfUkraine #SanctionsAgainstRussia #UkraineReconstruction #Zelenskyy
A record number of warehouses will be built in Ukraine in 2025. Ukrainian developers plan to commission a record number of warehouses – about 500,000 square meters in 2025. The warehouse real estate market has suffered considerable losses during the almost three y... #CommercialRealEstate #investments #UkraineReconstruction #Warehouse #WarehousesUkraine
Ukraine ranks as the third most popular investment destination for German companies in Central and Eastern Europe. According to a German CEE-Business Outlook 2025 study, which included 133 German companies, 22% of respondents indicated plans to relocate their production to Central and Eastern Europe. Furthermore, ... #CEEBusiness #EnergyHubUkraine #GermanBusiness #Germany #investments #Poland
Nestlé will invest around ₴9.5B in its Ukrainian business in 2025 and will launch a new plant. Alessandro Zanelli, top manager of Nestlé in Ukraine, said: “The consumer goods category will grow. But this year, everyone will feel extreme pressure on margins. You can’t shift everythin... #AlessandroZanelli #BusinessDevelopment #investments #Nestle #VolynRegion
Foreign investment during the war: Who is building factories in Ukraine? Desire from foreign businesses to participate in Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction and the state’s Made in Ukraine program, despite the ongoing war, has stimulated the expansion of product... #investments #Knauf #Kronospan #MadeinUA #MadeInUkraine #Nestle #PeikkoGroup #SaintGobain #Unilever
What industrial and production sites are up for sale in Ukraine? The Raykivskyi granite quarry and crushed stone plant in the Zhytomyr region is available for $3M. The business has been operating steadily and is equipped with high-quality machinery and equipment. T... #GraniteMining #InventFinancialCompany #investments #IvanoFrankivsk #RaykivskyiGraniteQuarry #Zhytomyr
Mining and extraction investments: What can Ukraine offer partners? Ukraine has limited deposits of several rare earth elements. Moreover, some are located in the temporarily occupied territories, and accurate data concerning them is classified. However, other strateg... #CobaltUkraine #CriticalMetals #investments #LithiumUkraine #MiningIndustry #MiningUkraine #NickelProduction #TitaniumUkraine
Ukraine’s reconstruction: Svyrydenko presents investment support mechanisms. Ukrainian Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko met with representatives from multiple EU governments (France, Italy, Germany, and eight other countries) to discuss deepening economic cooperation, attract... #ForeignInvestor #investments #UkraineReconstruction #WarRiskInsurance #YuliyaSvyridenko
The largest exporter of cabinet furniture in Ukraine plans to invest $14M to expand its production capacity. Accord Import, the top furniture exporter in the country, is set to begin construction of a new plant in Khmelnytskyi. Currently, the existing Accord Import facility is operating at full capacity. App... #AccordImport #CabinetFurniture #FurnitureExport #FurnitureIndustry #investments #JYSK #Khmelnytskyy
A new industrial park with ₴782M invested will be built in the Dnipropetrovsk region. The government has registered a new industrial park, Zhovti Vody, in the Dnipropetrovsk region. The industrial site will create about 500 jobs in high-tech and innovative sectors. This is the second p... #Dnipropetrovsk #IndustrialPark #investments #UkraineEconomy #ZhovtiVody
What new investment opportunities are arising within the framework of privatization? The State Property Fund of Ukraine (SPFU) is preparing to privatize the Vinnytsiapobuthim enterprise, which manufactures goods under the trademarks Vukhastyk, Sarma, and Lotos, said Ivanna Smachylo, t... #investments #KraytexService #PrivatizationUkraine #SPFU #Vinnytsiapobuthim
Ukrainian retailers are building out their logistics infrastructure to ensure operational stability. Over the course of the war, companies across various retail segments have been building or purchasing warehouses. For instance, the Eva cosmetics sales network is considering acquiring a logistics com... #AuroraMultimarket #EpicentrK #EVA #Foxtrotstores #investments #LogisticComplex #Novus #Warehouse
The first textile waste processing line in Ukraine, valued at ₴30M, has been launched in the Kyiv region. In Irpin, the new facility, which processes textile waste with a capacity of 2,500 tons annually, has commenced operations under wartime conditions. These scraps originate from the production of cloth... #investments #Irpin #ProcessingPlantUkraine #Ternopil #TextileIndustryUkraine #TextileWasteProcessing
Alterra Group invests $8.5M to expand its logistics center due to increased demand. Alterra Group, specializing in developing and managing commercial real estate, has invested $8.5M in expanding the Joule logistics center (Svyatopetrivske, Kyiv region) from 8,000 to 20,000 square fee... #AlterraGroup #CommercialRealEstate #investments #Joule #LogisticsComplex #Warehouse
Ukrainian manufacturers of fire and specialized equipment is investing $15M in a new plant. Pozhmashyna, one of Ukraine’s leading manufacturers of fire and specialized equipment, has announced the construction of a new plant in Lviv. The relevant agreement was signed with the Formatsia... #Formatsia #investments #Pozhmashyna #UkraineEconomy #Львів
Canada’s Black Iron has secured land in the Dnipropetrovsk region to develop the Shymanivske iron ore project. Canadian iron ore exploration and development company Black Iron has signed a multi-year agreement with the city of Kryvyi Rih to lease 248 hectares of land. This area is critical for completing the r... #BlackIron #investments #IronOre #IronOreMining #mininginukraine #ShymanivIronOreDeposit
In September, the second phase of the KYT industrial park will be launched in the Kyiv region. The second phase’s launch is located in Bucha (Kyiv region), where the production of building materials, metal-plastic doors, and windows is planned, and is scheduled for September 2025. Althoug... #Bucha #IndustrialPark #investments #KYT #novaposhta
HD Hyundai has opened a representative office in Ukraine and plans to participate in Ukraine’s reconstruction efforts. South Korean company HD Hyundai XiteSolution has officially established a representative office in Kyiv. According to the Ministry of Economy, the company embodies a comprehensive approach to cooperat... #ConstructionEquipment #Hyundai #investments #SouthKorea #UkraineReconstruction
Ukrainian graphite is being tested for use in lithium-ion batteries. BGV Group has completed laboratory and semi-industrial tests on the additional purification of graphite to battery quality, 99.99% purity, and the subsequent production of spherical graphite (SPG). Th... #ATBmarket #Beryllium #BGV #Graphite #investments #LithiumIonBatteries #Metso
A Ukrainian metallurgical giant has outlined the conditions for attracting investment in the exploration and development of minerals in Ukraine. Metinvest, the mining and metallurgical group, states that extracting and processing minerals is relatively capital-intensive, requiring investors to make substantial initial investments to develop en... #investments #MetallurgyUkraine #Metinvest #MiningIndustry #MiningInvestmentsUkraine #OleksandrVodoviz #Pokrovsk
Businesses plan to build a system of private vegetable storage facilities in Ukraine. The Ministry of Agrarian Policy stated that in 2025 Ukraine plans to build a private network of vegetable storage facilities with the help of private businesses. Large companies produce only 450,000 t... #AgroInnovations #agroUkraine #investments #Ukrainianfarmers #VegetableStorageFacility #VerticalFarming
In Ukraine, a record number of industrial parks was registered in 2024: The Lviv and Zakarpattia regions lead the way. In 2024, no less than 55 industrial parks were created in Ukraine, said Valeriy Kyrylko, owner of the Industrial Parks of Ukraine group of companies. Thirty-one of these parks were included in the Reg... #IndustrialPark #IndustryUkraine #investments #UkraineEconomy #Zakarpattia #Львів
Critical raw materials reserves can drive Ukraine’s economic growth. Significant reserves of critical raw materials are capable of becoming an essential factor in Ukraine’s economic development and could help it to integrate into global processes, says We Build U... #CriticalRawMaterial #investments #MiningIndustry #MiningUkraine #OleksandrKubrakov #WeBuildUkraine
Ukraine’s largest mobile operator plans to buy the Uklon taxi service and aims to become the biggest domestic IT investor. Ukraine’s largest mobile operator, Kyivstar, is discussing the possibility of acquiring Uklon, which has developed an online platform for ordering transportation and delivery. The price to purch... #investments #ITinvestment #KyivStar #Taxi #Uklon
Businesses expect the end of the war or its active phase in 2025 and are preparing to invest €450M. Top managers at large companies are focused and optimistic about the war in Ukraine ending or, at minimum, the cessation of active hostilities in 2025, said Minister of Economy Yulia Svyrydenko. She r... #investments #UkraineBusinessExpectation #UkraineEconomy #WarEnding #YuliyaSvyridenko
Two Ukrainian defense startups in the fields of robotics and communications have attracted scaling investments. The Nezlamni Fund, created by the co-founders of Uklon, has invested in developing Frontline, which develops and produces robotic systems. The investment amount was not disclosed, but it is within the... #DefenseTechnology #Frontline #Himera #investments #Nezlamni #Uklon
The UIF names the areas in which Ukraine has the potential to become a strategic ally of the United States. The Ukrainian Institute for the Future (UIF) identified four key areas for expanding cooperation between Ukraine and the US in the next 5-10 years. The first is the development of the critical materia... #agroexportukraine #CriticalRawMaterial #investments #ukrainianpartnership #USUkraine
DTEK is investing €450M in the construction of the second stage of the Tyligulska Wind Power Plant. This is the largest private investment in Ukraine since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion. The project will be the largest wind farm in Eastern Europe to be built in the last decade. To imp... #DTEK #investments #Mykolaiv #Poltava #TyligulskaWindPowerPlant #Vestas #WindEnergyUkraine
A Ukrainian developer starts construction of a new hotel that will have almost 500 apartments in the west of Ukraine. Ukrainian real estate developer Perfect Group has begun construction of the Velmy apart-hotel in Polyanytsia, in the Ivano-Frankivsk region. The goal of the Velmy project is to change the standards of... #HotelsConstruction #HotelsUkraine #investments #PerfectGroup #Velmy #Буковель
The Ministry of Agrarian Policy supports the privatization of all non-core assets in the agro-industrial complex. Minister of Agrarian Policy Vitaliy Koval noted that all state-owned agro-industrial enterprises and agricultural complexes should be privatized as soon as possible. New owners should be found for all... #agroUkraine #investments #MarylivskyiDistillery #PrivatizationUkraine #VitaliyKoval
Ukraine’s largest investors have shared their expectations for 2025; they predict increased economic activity and support from the US. Most of the 145 top company managers surveyed by the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine (AmCham) expect continued or increased support for Ukraine from the US (77%), and 23% predict its decrease.... #AmCham #ForeignInvestor #investments #UkraineBusinessActivity #UkraineBusinessExpectation #UkraineEconomicActivity
A new $25M industrial hemp processing plant with an initial capacity of 4,500 tons per year will be opened in the Zhytomyr region. The construction of a new plant for primary processing of industrial hemp has entered the final stage in the Ma’Rijany industrial park in Zhytomyr region. The launch of natural fiber and tinsel ... #IndustrialHemp #IndustrialPark #investments #Ma'RijanyHempCompany #Zhytomyr
