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attacks and war-related damage.
Air Baltic planning to resume flights to Ukraine as soon as airspace reopens. Latvian airline Air Baltic plans to resume flights to Kyiv, Lviv, and Odesa as soon as Ukraine's airspace reopens, the airline announced on March 26 after a visit to Kyiv's Boryspil airport.
Ukrzaliznytsia to increase govt procurement budget to UAH 65bn in 2024 – board chairman JSC Ukrzaliznytsia plans to increase the government procurement budget to UAH 65bn in 2024, including through the implementation of infrastructure projects, said Ukrzaliznytsia Board Chairman Yevhen Liaschenko in Kyiv at the Supplier Day 2024 on Tuesday.
9.2.4 Construction & Real estate corporate news 9.2.5 Retail corporate news
The largest shopping center will be built in the Kyiv region. A new shopping and entertainment center, the Bucha Gallery, will be built in Bucha, Kyiv. It will be built on the site of the Epicentr hypermarket destroyed by the invaders, said the mayor of Bucha, Anatolii Fedoruk. According to him, Bucha Gallery is planned to be completed by the end of 2024. The mall will create more than 600 jobs for community residents and generate more than ₴30M in taxes for the local budget annually. The total area of the new shopping and entertainment center will be 97,000 square meters, the largest in the Kyiv region. In addition to its own retail space of 51,500 square meters, another 14,500 square meters will be leased to other operators. The owners of the shopping center plan to open ten restaurants at once. Like all new shopping centers, it will have innovative technical equipment, solar panels, and charging hubs for electric cars.
McDonald's will open six more restaurants in Ukraine. The fast-food chain plans to open restaurants in Uzhhorod and Chernivtsi, the only regional centers in Ukraine without locations.
Foxtrot opens new store in Kryvy Rih On March 23, omnichannel retailer Foxtrot opened a new store in the Victory Plaza shopping and entertainment complex in Kryvy Rih (Dnipropetrovsk region), expanding the network in the country to 125 outlets, the retailer's press service reported on Tuesday.
Russian occupiers destroyed one of the newest shopping malls in the Epicentr K chain. On March 6, Russian shelling destroyed the Epicenter shopping center in Nikopol. It was one of the largest shopping facilities in the city, with an area of over 5,100 square meters, and supplied all nearby
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