Nearly half of the companies with foreign owners are registered in Kyiv. Who owns them and how much do they earn?
1 April 17:05
According to the Unified State Register, as of mid-March 2026, there were nearly 3,000 companies in Ukraine with foreign owners that file financial reports and have annual revenues of at least 100 million hryvnias. Nearly a quarter of these companies are owned by Cypriot citizens. And the largest number of businesses with foreign owners are registered in the capital. This is reported by OpenDataBot, according to "Komersant Ukrainian".
There are currently 2,997 companies with foreign owners in Ukraine. Nearly a quarter of these companies—694—have owners from Cyprus. Next are citizens of Germany—they are listed in 300 companies—and the United States—292. They are followed by the Netherlands (239 companies), the United Kingdom (224), Austria (187), and Poland (146). It is worth noting that a single company may have multiple owners.
Nearly half of these companies are registered in Kyiv (1,478 businesses). Next are the Lviv and Kyiv regions (233 companies each). In contrast, there are significantly fewer such businesses in frontline regions, particularly in the Kharkiv and Donetsk regions.
In terms of business sectors, foreign owners most often choose wholesale trade, the agricultural sector, and IT.
Specifically, over a quarter of all foreign-owned companies operate in wholesale trade—774. Another 268 companies are in agriculture and 176 in IT.
