Key Developments:
Ukraine prepares a national AI law aligned with the EU AI Act, signaling clearer compliance rules for high-risk sectors
YASNO deploys the Predict+ AI platform to forecast electricity consumption and improve grid planning under wartime conditions
DTEK launches a five-year AI transformation program to embed AI across operations and expand workforce usage to over 90%
SoftServe scales its AI-based employee safety tracking tool from Ukraine to global crisis response use cases
Netpeak launches a catalog of 50+ AI solutions and agents to automate business processes across multiple functions
Enabled Intelligence opens a large-scale Ukrainian drone footage dataset for training military AI models across NATO users
Kyivstar plans a domestic AI data center to strengthen Ukraine’s digital sovereignty and support defense and business demand
GOVERNMENT AI & REGULATION
Ukraine Prepares AI Law Aligned with EU AI Act
Ukraine plans to establish national rules for the use and development of artificial intelligence during 2026, with a working group preparing a dedicated AI law aligned with European regulatory standards. The Ministry of Digital Transformation said the process follows earlier initiatives including an AI regulation roadmap, a White Paper, a regulatory sandbox, and an updated AI terminology glossary. Over the past year, Ukraine’s AI regulatory sandbox received 90 applications from developers, with 15 products undergoing expert audits. For investors and AI companies, the planned law signals a move toward clearer compliance requirements, particularly for high-risk AI systems in sectors such as critical infrastructure, healthcare, banking, education, employment, migration, law enforcement, and justice.
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INDUSTRIAL AI
YASNO Deploys AI Platform Predict+ for Energy Consumption Forecasting
Ukrainian energy brand YASNO has partnered with U.S.-based Tigo Energy to implement Predict+, an AI platform that forecasts electricity consumption using weather data, historical consumption and generation patterns, and real-time operating indicators. Tigo adapted the neural network for Ukrainian conditions, including variables related to damaged energy infrastructure, after testing the system in the Dnipropetrovsk region. YASNO said the platform should reduce imbalance settlement costs by improving planning and resource allocation. The company serves more than 2.5 million households in Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Donetsk regions, as well as over 64,000 business customers, making the rollout relevant for energy-sector resilience and operational efficiency.
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DTEK Launches Five-Year AI Transformation Program
DTEK has launched a five-year AI transformation program to embed artificial intelligence into key business processes across the energy holding. The company wants more than 90% of employees to use AI regularly at work, up from the current level of about 50%, according to Dmytro Osyka, DTEK CIO and Modus X CEO. DTEK is Ukraine’s second-largest private company by Forbes Ukraine’s estimate, with 2024 revenue of UAH 245.9 billion and around 55,000 employees. The initiative signals growing AI adoption among Ukraine’s largest industrial groups, with potential implications for productivity, workforce training, and digital modernization in critical infrastructure.
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ENTERPRISE & CORPORATE AI
SoftServe Expands Internal AI Safety Tool Beyond Ukraine
SoftServe Ukraine developed Safety Check Bot, an AI tool integrated into Microsoft Teams that helps the company quickly confirm whether employees are safe during crisis events. Built in February 2022, at the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, the bot sends short status checks to at-risk employees and alerts local crisis response teams when assistance is needed. Although designed for Ukrainian wartime conditions, SoftServe has also used the tool for employees in the Middle East and Latin America, as well as during floods in Poland. The system reflects how Ukrainian IT companies are converting crisis-response infrastructure into scalable operational resilience tools for global use.
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Netpeak Launches AI Solutions Catalog for Business Automation
Ukrainian marketing agency Netpeak has launched AI Solutions by Netpeak, a new business line offering more than 50 ready-made AI agents, machine learning models, and automation tools across marketing, sales, finance, HR, legal, and operations functions. The company says most tools were first developed and tested internally, saving more than 1,000 operational hours and over $8,000 per month. The catalog includes solutions such as Netpeak Aura for customer communication analysis, Invoice Checker for financial document processing, RAG-based legal knowledge tools, AI content audit agents, and SDR assistants. Netpeak positions the offering as a shift from basic AI assistants toward integrated agentic systems, with some cases automating up to 80% of operational processes and showing initial results within 1–3 months.
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DEFENSE AI
Ukrainian Drone Footage Dataset Opens for Military AI Training
U.S. startup Enabled Intelligence has opened access to a dataset containing more than 500,000 hours of real drone video recorded during the war in Ukraine for training AI models. The pre-labeled and verified footage covers aerial object detection, vehicle classification, and ground activity, with potential applications in intelligence, surveillance, remote sensing, logistics, and drone operations. The company works with U.S. military and government customers, and in 2025 received a National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency contract worth up to $708 million over seven years. Enabled Intelligence did not disclose the source of the Ukrainian drone footage or its defense clients, but said the dataset is available to approved users in the U.S., Ukraine, and NATO countries.
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AI INFRASTRUCTURE
Kyivstar Plans Domestic AI Data Center to Support Ukraine’s Digital Sovereignty
Kyivstar and Ukraine’s Ministry of Economy plan to develop domestic AI computing infrastructure, starting with a 3–5 MW AI data center. Kyivstar CEO Oleksandr Komarov said the first stage will require tens of millions of dollars in investment, with financial support from parent company VEON. The project is framed as a national security measure, as military users are currently among the largest consumers of Ukrainian AI and cannot rely entirely on foreign-hosted computing. Beyond defense, the infrastructure is intended to provide Ukrainian businesses with access to advanced AI services, even when they are too small to work directly with global cloud providers.
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