Ukraine

The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine is preparing a draft decree on introducing a licensing regime for imports of grapes, wine and alcohol from Moldova. This decision protects Ukraine’s economic interests and is a response to the Moldovan side’s restriction of exports of Ukrainian poultry meat, by-products and products containing poultry meat.

Export of honey from Ukraine in 2025 compared to the figure for 2024 (about 86 thousand tons) decreased by 41.4% – to 50.3 thousand tons. In financial terms, the export of this product from Ukraine in 2025 decreased by 24.9% to $125.4 mln.

Moldova and Ukraine are creating a legal framework for the mutual return of unaccompanied children to a safe and familiar environment.

Romanian Energy Minister Bogdan Ivan claims that the Vertical Corridor could bring Romanian companies additional profits of up to 250 million euros a year.

As a result of the war between Russia and Ukraine, more than 600,000 hectares of land owned by agri-food companies from the TOP-100 ranking are in territories controlled by the Russian army. In general, the land bank of companies from the TOP-100 is about 5.3 million hectares: this is a quarter of all sown areas of Ukraine, which are estimated at 23 million hectares. Ukrlandfarming, Agroton and HarvEast suffered the biggest losses.

In 2025, the foreign trade turnover of agricultural and food products between Ukraine and the European Union decreased by 9% compared to the record figure of the previous year – to $15.7 billion, according to Logos Press.

Despite last year’s relatively high crop of mass-market vegetables, some of them will run out of stock in storage within the next two weeks. Not because demand will increase, but because quality will degrade rapidly, Logos Press reports.

A law abolishing the special status for Ukrainians, which has been in effect since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, will come into force on March 5. From that date, they will be subject to the general rules of Polish legislation regarding the principles and norms of temporary protection of foreigners, Logos Press has reported.

The Ukrainian labor market is showing surprising resilience – unemployment in the country is only slightly above pre-war levels, according to Logos Press.

Ukrainian business in Latvia has flourished in recent years: the number of enterprises has increased on the back of investments of 137 million euros, according to Logos Press.

Ukraine and other post-Soviet countries are rapidly losing their former positions in the world walnut market due to internal problems of national walnut production and aggressive market policy of “new exporters”.

About 11,000 railcars with grain have piled up in the direction of Odessa ports. The management of Ukrzaliznytsya considers the situation “almost critical”, Logos Press reported.