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Foreigners have opened over 2,600 businesses in Ukraine since start of full-scale war

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Foreigners have opened over 2,600 businesses in Ukraine since start of full-scale war
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Foreign citizens have founded 2,652 companies in Ukraine since the outbreak of the full-scale Russian invasion in 2022, the Opendatabot business monitoring service said on May 16.

Citizens from some 100 countries have continued to launch new businesses in the country even amid the physical danger and economic downturn caused by Moscow's war.

Businesspeople from Turkey represent the largest share, data shows, as they own 354 new Ukrainian businesses, or 13% of the total.

In second place are citizens of Uzbekistan, with 274 new Ukrainian companies, which is roughly one-tenth of the overall number. Poles come third with 193 businesses, representing 7% of the companies launched since 2022.

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Citizens of the U.S. (174), Kazakhstan (151), Germany (122), Azerbaijan (121), Israel (114), and the U.K. (94) also rank high, according to Opendatabot's data.

The largest business opened by a foreigner after the beginning of the full-scale war was TENS1MA LLC, with a charter capital of Hr 1.28 billion ($32.5 million), owned by an Armenian citizen, the service said.

The second largest is the Venture Corporate Investment Fund Yugen, which has a capital of Hr 700 million ($18 million) and an American citizen as its ultimate owner.

As the third comes LLC LFS, with a charter capital of Hr 300 million ($7.6 million) and is owned by a Polish citizen.

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Martin Fornusek

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Martin Fornusek is a news editor at the Kyiv Independent. He has previously worked as a news content editor at the media company Newsmatics and is a contributor to Euromaidan Press. He was also volunteering as an editor and translator at the Czech-language version of Ukraïner. Martin studied at Masaryk University in Brno, Czechia, holding a bachelor's degree in security studies and history and a master's degree in conflict and democracy studies.

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