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In Ukraine, as of 1 October 2026 of this year, more than 234 thousand trademarks remain in force, and some of them are still connected to Russian and Belarusian owners.
As Dilo writes, this is discussed in a YouControl study.
In total from 1992 year to September 2026, Ukraine registered nearly 394 thousand trademarks. As of 1 October 2026, more than 234 thousand of them remained active.
How many trademarks in Ukraine are owned by Russians
78% of active trademarks are owned by Ukrainian owners. Among foreign countries by number of owners, the United States, Cyprus, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom lead. At the same time, Russian and Belarusian owners are still present in the list:
1 299 trademarks belong to Russian individuals or legal entities;
312 trademarks have among their owners citizens or companies from Belarus.
Which companies and business groups own trademarks
The largest portfolios of trademarks are concentrated in companies operating in the food industry, telecommunications, and pharmaceuticals. Most owner companies are registered in Kyiv and the Kyiv region.
Analysts also checked links between companies and corporate groups represented in the YouControl system. Up to 2 030 of such groups include 4 774 companies from the studied sample — which is 22% of its total number.
At the same time, the links are not mutually exclusive: one company can belong to several corporate groups, and one group can unite several companies that own trademarks. By the number of owner companies, the following groups lead:
"System Capital Management (SCM)" — 64 companies;
"Privat" — 60 companies;
"Dragon Capital" — 34 companies;
"IstVans" and "Group DF" — about 30 companies.
Analysts pay particular attention to sanctions links of key individuals in two business groups. Thus, key persons in two of these corporate groups are under NSDC sanctions: from "Privat" — Ihor Kolomoyskyi and Hennadiy Boholyubov, from "Group DF" — Dmytro Firtash.
How many Ukrainian companies have a Russian footprint
According to YouControl, 159 Ukrainian companies — owners of active trademarks — have representations of Russia in their ownership structure.
Among the examples cited in the study:
PJSC "Wimm-Bill-Dan Ukraine", which owns 45 trademarks. Its shareholder is the Russian company "Wimm-Bill-Dann Produkty Pitaniya".
LLC "Omnipharm Kyiv", which has 19 trademarks in its portfolio. Among the founders or participants of the company is the Russian citizen Natalia Filatova.
Additionally, 110 more companies from the studied sample are part of international holdings or groups, whose participants include legal entities registered in Russia.
Analysts cite the example of LLC "Sandora", which is part of the list of PepsiCo, Inc. subsidiaries. Among other companies on this list are also Russian legal entities — according to data from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as of 27 December 2025 year.
Where the owners are registered and what they do
Almost half of all legal entities-owners of trademarks (48,5%) are concentrated in Kyiv (9,2 thousand companies) and in the Kyiv region (1,2 thousand).
Among other leading regions are Lviv (1,5 thousand), Dnipropetrovsk (1,4 thousand), Odesa (1,4 thousand), and Kharkiv (1,3 thousand) regions.
By the sectors of activity of the brands’ owner companies, the distribution is as follows:
trade — 23% (led by wholesale of pharmaceutical goods and building materials);
manufacturing — 22,9% (primarily food and beverage producers);
IT and telecommunications — about 10%;
professional, scientific and technical activities — 9%;
real estate and construction — more than 9%.
Recall that since the start of the full-scale invasion, a law in Ukraine prohibits removing Russian owners or beneficiaries from companies. Nevertheless, despite restrictions, 612 companies have shed the Russian footprint and continue to operate in Ukraine, winning multi-million state tenders.
Furthermore, among more than 1000 companies and 167 individual entrepreneurs who joined the National Cashback program, three companies had owners from the Russian Federation at the start of the full-scale invasion, and one more business is still owned by a Russian.
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