It became known how the regions of the South have affected the country's economy since the beginning of the invasion

Thus, in Odesa region, the top five companies are as follows:

• Tedis Ukraine - UAH 64.95 billion;
• OOEK - UAH 11.24 billion;
• Tavria Plus - UAH 9.93 billion;
• Eurostandard - UAH 9.14 billion;
• Avtomagistral-Pivden - UAH 7.58 billion.

In Mykolaiv region:

• Nibulon - UAH 15.18 billion;
• Mykolaiv Electric Supply Company - UAH 5.79 billion;
• Technotorg-Don - UAH 5.17 billion;
• Technotorg - UAH 2.58 billion;
• Private Enterprise Zakhid - UAH 1.66 billion.

In Kherson region:

• Sada JSZ - UAH 0.20 billion;
• Diadema-Consulting - UAH 0.14 billion;
• Sodruzhestvo - UAH 0.13 billion;
• Adelaide - UAH 0.10 billion;
• Tavria Charitable Foundation - UAH 0.05 billion.

The net income of companies in Odesa region amounted to UAH 201.3 billion, in Mykolaiv region - UAH 47.2 billion, and in Kherson region - UAH 0.

The largest revenue growth was observed in the western regions, such as Lviv, Volyn and Rivne. Instead, businesses in the occupied and frontline territories of the south and east recorded a decline. However, even in cities such as Dnipro, Zaporizhzhia, Odesa, Kharkiv, and Sumy, which are located near the frontline, the revenue of the top 5 companies increased despite the difficulties. However, these figures cannot be compared to the 50% growth in Lviv, Lutsk, Uzhhorod, or the twofold increase in Ivano-Frankivsk.

Most of the charters of Ukrainian companies are now publicly available and can be viewed in the format of scanned documents in real time. There are 854,000 charters of existing Ukrainian companies in the public domain, of which 98,000, or 11.5%, are model charters. In total, the charters of 61% of all registered companies are available on Opendatabot.

In the first eight months of 2024, more than 19,000 new entrepreneurs opened sole proprietorships in the south of the country. In total, almost 194 thousand new individual entrepreneurs have registered in Ukraine. Thus, 12839 sole proprietorships were opened in Odesa region, 5096 in Mykolaiv region, and 1746 in Kherson region.

One third of new sole proprietorships are opened in the trade sector, while the IT sector attracted 7.6% of new entrepreneurs. The third most popular is the provision of individual services - 7%.

Since the start of the full-scale war, foreigners from 101 countries have opened 3,075 companies in Ukraine. Citizens are the most likely to start a business in Ukraine: Turkey - 396 companies, Uzbekistan - 312 companies, and Poland - 224 companies.