Oleksandr Katsuba in the media

The agroholding in the de-occupied part of the Kharkiv region widens its niche crops: over 5,000 hectares of peas, high-oleic sunflower and mustard.

In the 2027 season Landex Agro moves from experiments to scaling up: the area under oilseed flax, chickpeas and soybeans will grow to over 5.1 thousand hectares.

The agroholding, operating in the de-occupied territories of eight communities in Kharkiv region with a land bank of 52.8 thousand hectares, has been included in the Forbes Next 250 ranking of promising companies.

Ukraine is preparing to revoke up to 300 inactive gas licenses. A position on subsoil-use reform for an international audience.

The era of "easy" gas is over. Special permits with no real activity for years should automatically revert to the state and be put up for auction.

200–300 "dormant" licenses are the industry's main internal problem. The "use it or lose it" principle: if production has not started within 3–5 years, the special permit goes to auction.

A column on small modular reactors: why Ukraine, with its engineering school and its need for distributed generation, can host Europe's first SMRs.

The war has become a catalyst for transforming the power system: amid the global nuclear renaissance, Ukraine can become one of the continent's energy centers.

A column on the future of energy independence: Ukraine has a chance to be the first in Eastern Europe to deploy small modular reactors at scale and export the solutions to the EU.

Instead of drilling, holders spend years on paper studies, reserve re-estimates or minimal seismic work. A licence without production should have a deadline.

A proposal to set a clear deadline for exploration and automatically return special permits to the state — while the country spends foreign currency on gas imports.

Hundreds of fields have gone undeveloped for years: owners hold special permits as an asset "for sale". The problem is not a shortage of subsoil resources but their inaccessibility to real investors.