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Varus to Acquire Kolo Grocery Store Chain

Ukraine’s Antimonopoly Committee has approved the acquisition of the Kolo grocery store chain by Omega, the company that operates the Varus supermarket chain. The regulator approved the transaction on July 16. Varus described the upcoming deal as one of the largest transactions in Ukraine’s retail sector this year. According to the company, the acquisition will […]

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Meta to Alert Parents About Children’s High-Risk AI Conversations

Meta is introducing a new feature that will notify parents about potentially dangerous conversations their children have with AI-powered chatbots. The feature is designed to identify cases in which teenagers discuss suicide or self-harm with artificial intelligence, ABC News reports. The new feature, called Parent Notifications, will initially be available to users of Instagram’s parental […]

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PlayCity Gambling Regulator Significantly Accelerates Detection and Blocking of Illegal Gambling Websites

Ukraine has stepped up its efforts to combat illegal online gambling websites, according to the Ministry of Digital Transformation. Since the beginning of the year, the country’s gambling regulator, PlayCity, has submitted 6,668 illegal websites for blocking—more than twice the number blocked during the entire previous year. Authorities have significantly improved response times through the […]

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Kazakhstan Begins Supplying Gasoline to Russia

Kazakhstan’s Kondensat Oil Refinery exported its first shipment of gasoline to Russia in July. The deliveries come amid a gasoline shortage on the Russian domestic market, caused by unplanned maintenance at several oil refineries following intensified Ukrainian drone attacks. According to reports, approximately 1,000 metric tons of gasoline produced at the Kondensat refinery were shipped […]

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Apple Becomes the World’s Most Valuable Company, Overtaking NVIDIA

Apple has once again become the world’s most valuable publicly traded company, surpassing NVIDIA in market capitalization, Reuters reports. This marks the first time since April 2025 that the iPhone maker has regained the top position. During trading on Friday, Apple shares continued to rise, bringing the company’s market capitalization to $4.88 trillion by the […]

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Honda to Discontinue Sales of Its Last Electric Crossover in the U.S.

Honda has officially confirmed that it will discontinue sales of the Honda Prologue electric crossover in the United States after the 2026 model year. In a statement to CarBuzz, the automaker said that sales of the Prologue will end later this year. The Honda Prologue was developed in partnership with General Motors and is built […]

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Iraq Redirects Oil Exports Through Syria

Iraq has begun actively using Syria as an alternative route for exporting petroleum products in an effort to reduce its dependence on the Strait of Hormuz amid escalating tensions in the Middle East, Bloomberg reports. In recent months, Syria has transformed from a minor market participant into one of the region’s key export hubs. The […]

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Digital Giants Paid UAH 8.9 Billion into Ukraine’s State Budget

Non-resident companies providing electronic services to Ukrainian consumers paid a total of €82.4 million and $106.7 million in value-added tax (VAT) to Ukraine’s state budget during the first half of 2026, according to Lesia Karnaukh, Acting Head of the State Tax Service of Ukraine, in a Facebook post. According to Karnaukh, the total amounts to […]

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“Literary” Intercity Train to Operate Between Kyiv and Lutsk

Ukrzaliznytsia has announced the launch of an additional Intercity+ high-speed train, No. 755/756 Kyiv–Lutsk, which will operate on July 25 and 26, the company said. The special service has been introduced to coincide with the Frontera International Literary Festival, for which Ukrzaliznytsia is serving as the official logistics partner. The train will depart Kyiv at […]

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Croatia Expands LNG Terminal Capacity

Croatia plans to expand the capacity of its only liquefied natural gas (LNG) import terminal, a move that could enable Ukraine to receive larger volumes of gas from the European market. The plans were outlined by Ivan Fugas, CEO of the state-owned company LNG Croatia, in an interview with Bloomberg. According to Fugas, the company […]

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Grigol Katamadze

Grigol Katamadze, public figure, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, President of the Association of Taxpayers. The All-Ukrainian Public Organization «Taxpayers Association of Ukraine» is the largest and most authoritative business association in Ukraine, which includes 6500 small, medium and large enterprises across the country. The main purpose of the Association is to improve the business climate […]

Oleksiy Myronenko

Oleksiy Myronenko, CEO of the MIKO Group logistics group of companies, looks positively at the development of the logistics industry in Ukraine despite the corona crisis. Oleksiy is sure that everything is possible even during a crisis when you work with a young and ambitious team of professionals to build a sustainable future. LDaily: Please, […]

Tiberiu Dima

Blitz interview with Tiberiu Dima, Managing director BASF Ukraine, Head of Country Cluster East Europe LDaily: What are the main results of the first half of 2019? T. Dima: This year, our business development in Ukraine is positive, with steady growth in most of our industries. BASF Agricultural Solutions, which is our main business in […]

Dmytro Lukomsky

Dmytro Lukomsky, the CEO of Avenston, an investor and top manager who got the Person of the Year award in the Eastern European sustainable energy industry at SEF Awards 2018 and SEF Awards 2019, covered for LDaily readers the issues of solar energy and their causes, as well as proposed solutions that will help the […]

Valerii Andriianov

The conversation with the director of Ukrainian exporting flour Stolychnyi Mlyn Valerii Andriianov about the realities and prospects of the Ukrainian business. Youth, ambitions, straightforwardness and honesty, as well as the desire to keep moving forward. Is not that the qualities which are so severely lacking for many Ukrainian businessmen? All this combines in himself […]

Aleksandr Koshcheyev

Aleksandr Koshcheyev, the CEO of the Ukrainian leasing fund and the vice-chairman of the director’s board of the Ukrainian Association of lessors told about such tendency, having explained to LDaily by the aid to what the company has achieved such results and what it is necessary to work on. It turned out that positive dynamics […]

Andrii Kryvoshapko

Andrii Kryvoshapko, CEO of Post Finance, told LDaily about a new financial product that significantly facilitates the work of business and consumers’ life. LDaily: In September 2018, Nova poshta launched a payment system NovaPay, developed by Post Finance company. Why did you begin developing your own software? A. Kryvoshapko: Initially, our software was developed by […]

Yuriy Mikulyak

Continuing to acquaint the readers with the Ukrainian businessmen, LDaily offers an interesting conversation on the importance of the united team in business and a role of reputation which often solves a lot of things. Sometimes more important to work in minus but to keep their word and “to maintain the appearances” to not lose […]

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Tiberiu Dima

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