Business of Kyiv Region and Ukraine

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Trump Sued Over Selling Access to Messages on Truth Social

Journalists Challenge Launch of Truth API, Which Sells Early Access to US President's Posts for $100,000 per Month

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Dobrobut Filed Application for Mirum Deal to AMCU: Agreement Is Not Yet a Deal

Ukraine's largest private medical network wants to buy Kyiv clinic Mirum, but submitting documents to the Antimonopoly Committee is just the start of the procedure, not a guarantee of its completion.

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Blackouts, Heat Waves, and Jellyfish: Why Electricity Prices Soared Across Europe

Europe's solar generation will lose nearly 10 gigawatts due to the August 12 eclipse, while French nuclear power plants have been struggling for weeks with heat and jellyfish — consumers are footing the bill for this.

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Naftogaz underwent "technical default" on bonds: why CC is not a reason for relief

Fitch has formally registered Naftogaz's default on Eurobonds and immediately restored its rating to the same CC level — the debt restructuring failed to eliminate the main problem: the company continues to depend on gas imports amid Russian strikes.

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Residential Solar Power Plants: "Green" Tariff Now Operates on Schedule, Not 24 Hours

The National Commission for State Regulation of Energy and Utilities (NKREKU) has for the first time limited the timeframe for the "green" tariff for residential solar panels — panel owners should check whether their generation falls within the "profitable" hours.

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Russia extracts oil a million barrels below quota — and it's visible at gas stations

While Bloomberg counts barrels, drivers in Stavropol and Volgograd regions are queuing for gasoline that simply doesn't exist. Ukrainian strikes on refineries have turned OPEC+ abstract statistics into a very concrete shortage.

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Chernivtsi Terminated Scooter Rental Agreements, But Cannot Ban Them

The city council has cancelled memoranda with Bolt, Jet Rides, and Vevy, but legally the scooters will not disappear — authorities acknowledge they lack the authority to confiscate private property or fine users.

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Dog from Slovyansk and Nova Poshta top management: how the company learned from its crisis

Vladimir Popereshnyuk acknowledged that the incident with the dog became one of the company's biggest reputational crises — and exposed a practical gap: Nova Poshta simply had no rules for handling animals.

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Graphite Instead of Gold: Why Khmelnytsky Region Becomes a New Hotspot on the Critical Minerals Map

Turkish Onur Group, having turned its attention from the gold of Dnipropetrovsk region, is betting on graphite near Shepetivka — and this shows where investor interest in Ukrainian mineral resources is actually heading.

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Ukraine gave Czech defense giant 558 million euros — but its business no longer depends on us

Czechoslovak Group's revenue from Ukraine has grown in absolute figures, but its share of the company's turnover has halved over two years — the concern is accelerating on NATO and Asian markets.

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Danube on the Brink: How 19 Centimeters of Water Determine Half of Hungary's Energy System

A river running shallow due to heat waves has forced Budapest to reconsider: whether it's possible to build nuclear dependence on a climate that is becoming increasingly unpredictable.

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Why Gas Station Prices Fall Slower Than Oil: OKKO CEO Explains

The head of OKKO admitted: if the Strait of Hormuz is not unblocked, Ukrainians face a return to spring fuel prices — and without any tax breaks from the state.

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Who Controls Our Data. Maksym Aheiev on AI, Technofascism, and Economic Nationalism

The CEO of De Novo explains why a server cabinet containing data of millions of Ukrainians is no longer a matter of business, but a matter of national security.

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Memorandum with Aydem Holding: what it takes for Turkish 100 MW to become Ukrainian kilowatts

Kyiv region has signed a cooperation agreement with Turkish energy giant Aydem Holding, but a memorandum is a statement of intent, not a binding contract. The key question is not who signed it, but who is responsible for the land, infrastructure networks, and financing.

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Unitree Goes Public at $9 Billion IPO: Why Robot Dog Is More Important Than Humanoid

A Chinese robotics manufacturer is raising nearly a billion dollars just as the US closes its market to its products — the figure of 13.3% of revenue from America explains why the company is in a hurry.

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UTEM Engineering Received Contract to Seal Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant Arch Following Russian Drone Strike

A hole in the outer shell of the New Safe Confinement will be hermetically sealed, but this is a temporary solution.

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Road Workers Bought a Winery in Odesa: Why a "Non-Drinking" Business Is Entering Wine Production

# Translation A road-building company became the sole participant in an auction and acquired the Kotovsky winery at twice below the starting price. This is already the second case in a year when a state winemaking asset has been transferred not to an industry player, but to a tenant or a related business.

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Ferrexpo halted: why the mining giant's bankruptcy is a story about ports, not ore

A company that for years fed the Poltava region's budget with jobs has become a hostage not to factory problems, but to a maritime blockade. This demonstrates how fragile the logistics of Ukrainian exports has become.

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Bloomberg: Russia Cuts Oil Exports After Ukraine Military Changes Strike Strategy

Russia's crude oil exports have fallen below 4 million barrels per day for the first time in six weeks — Bloomberg records the impact of Ukrainian strikes on tankers and refineries.

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"Akson Shipping" Provides Vessel Escort Services at Pivdennyi Port Despite Constant Shelling

A towing company continues to process vessels in the waters of "Pivdennyi" within the maritime corridor, despite regular attacks on port infrastructure.

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Why the platform became a trap: the logic behind the Brovary attack and what railway passengers should do

People died not on the train, but while waiting for it — near warehouses that were the actual target. This raises a practical question: how is Ukrzaliznytsia protecting platforms near logistics hubs that have become a priority target for Russia.

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"General Chereshnya" Integrates French Alta Ares AI into Bullet Interceptor Drone

Cooperation will combine Ukrainian combat experience and French artificial intelligence technologies for operation without GPS and electronic warfare jamming.

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Minimum grain prices lowered as market collapsed faster than government papers

The government admitted that the rules intended to protect agricultural exports have themselves become an obstacle to it. Reduced minimum prices are not a gift to farmers, but an attempt to save exports that are being strangled by attacks on the Black Sea.

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Amazon Reaches $3 Trillion Valuation — But the Company Admits It Can't Keep Up with AI Demand

Jesse raised the 2026 capital expenditure forecast to $220 billion and acknowledged that even this amount will not be enough to meet demand for AI computing power.

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Bloomberg: Oil refining in Russia falls to minimum since 2002 after Ukrainian strikes

Ukraine struck Russia's oil infrastructure at least 30 times in July — Bloomberg recorded a drop in refining capacity to 3.6 million barrels per day.

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Russian "Shahed" struck Rozetka warehouse near Kyiv, worker killed

At least seven people were injured when an attack occurred at a marketplace warehouse where 270 people were working.

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300 Million Hryvnia for Two "Shaheds": What the Strike on "Ranok" Means for the Book Market and Schools

The destroyed warehouse of Ukraine's largest children's publishing house is not just photos of a fire, but textbooks that schools will not receive before September 1st, and an industry that has lost a fifth of its inventory in a month.

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LinkedIn Admits: Nearly Half of Posts Are AI Garbage. What the New Button Will Change

A job search network added a complaint button for AI-generated content, but the real problem runs deeper — users themselves have been asking AI for years to write "convincing" posts for them.

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"200,000 Board Games Destroyed in Fire Following Russian Attack on Warehouse in Vyshnevoe"

# Russian Missile Destroys Logistics Center of Major Ukrainian Board Game Publisher A Russian missile has destroyed a logistics center where the entire inventory of Rozum, one of Ukraine's largest board game publishers, was stored.

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Russians Strike Avtostrada Base During August 1 Shelling, Two People Killed

One of Ukraine's largest road infrastructure companies became a target of a Russian attack.