Rating of Ukrainian businessmen 2026 – list of the richest entrepreneurs in Ukraine

Main points

• Every fifth businessman in Ukraine receives an income of over 10 million hryvnias per year – that's 74 thousand entrepreneurs.
• The top three richest people by income in 2025 were Rinat Akhmetov, Vitaliy Antonov, and Andriy Verevsky.

Rating of Ukrainian businessmen 2026 / Collage of Channel 24

Currently, there are 74,000 businessmen in Ukraine who have an income of over 10 million hryvnias per year and submit financial statements on time. Interestingly, the vast majority of them (72%) are men.

What is known about Ukrainian businessmen?

Almost a quarter of entrepreneurs are registered in Kyiv, and the top three richest are Rinat Akhmetov, Vitaliy Antonov, and Andriy Verevsky. This analysis was published by Opendatabot.

The net annual growth of the list of leaders is over 6 thousand names, with 37% of entrepreneurs moving up in the ranking and 42% losing positions. The majority work in the “middle” segment of large business:

• 79% have an income of 10 to 100 million hryvnias;

• 19% generate from 100 million to 1 billion hryvnias;

• only 2% are real giants with a turnover of over 1 billion hryvnias.

Where in Ukraine are the most registered large entrepreneurs / Opendatabot

The largest number of businessmen from the new rating is registered in Kyiv, as well as in the Dnipropetrovsk and Lviv regions.

Useful! If you are the owner of a company that submits financial reports on a timely and regular basis, look for your name in the ranking.

Rating of the richest businessmen in Ukraine:

Currently, the top ten richest businessmen in the country (by income for 2025) look like this:

1. Rinat Akhmetov – 843.18 billion hryvnias (remained in 1st place);
2. Vitaly Antonov – 164.21 billion hryvnias (remained in 2nd place);
3. Andriy Verevsky – 149.77 billion hryvnias (rose from 6th place);
4. Yuriy Kosyuk – 131.31 billion hryvnias (fell from 3rd place);
5. Ari Weber – 114.08 billion hryvnias (fell from 4th place);
6. Volodymyr Kostelman – 94.09 billion hryvnias (fell from 5th place);
7. Oleksiy Poroshenko – 75.14 billion hryvnias (moved up from 8th place);
8. Andriy Hubsky – 71.8 billion hryvnias (fell from 7th place);
9. Dmytro Firtash – 58.47 billion hryvnias (remained in 9th place);
10. Svitlana Ivakhiv – 46.85 billion hryvnias (moved up from 11th place).

By the way, 69 business owners out of the top hundred are registered in Ukraine, so the list includes representatives from Cyprus, the USA and Great Britain, Switzerland (4%), and other countries, including the UAE, Germany, and Monaco.

What is known about other ratings?

• The previous day, a ranking of the largest employers in Ukraine was published. Ukrzaliznytsia took first place, the ATB network took second place, and the Gas Distribution Networks took third place. Next on the list were Silpo, Ukrposhta, Nova Poshta, Energoatom, etc.

• Previously, as many as seven Ukrainians were included in the ranking of the richest people in the world according to Forbes – Rinat Akhmetov, Viktor Pinchuk, Vlad Yatsenko, Petro Poroshenko, Andriy Verevsky, as well as Vadym Novinsky and Kostyantyn Zhevago.