Current War Situation in Ukraine (February 2 Update)

Agricultural and Rural Ukraine

Current War Situation in Ukraine

War News

  • The enemy captured 325 km² in January — that’s like two Odesas.
  • Defense Minister of russia Andrei Belousov said during a Defense Ministry meeting on Dec. 16 that Moscow aims to seize the entirety of Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts in 2025.

Attack on Kyiv Oblast

January 25, 2025

  • russia attacked Kyiv oblast with drones.
  • high-rise building in Vyshneve was damaged, and a production facility in the Fastiv district caught fire.

Strike on Poltava
February 1, 2025

  • A russian missile struck a residential building in the city of Poltava in the morning
  • 14 people killed (including 2 children), 17 injured (including 4 children)
  • The attack destroyed all five floors of one of the building’s sections, caused a fire and damaged neighboring buildings.

Export

January 29: Since the beginning of the 2024/25 MY, Ukraine has exported 25.353 mln tons of grain and leguminous crops (3.121 mln tons were shipped since the beginning of the current month):

  • Wheat: 10.7 mln tons (in 2023/24 MY – 9.027 mln tons);
  • Barley: 2.064 mln tons (in 2023/24 MY – 1.4 mln tons);
  • Rye: 10.8 K tons (in 2023/24 MY – 1 K tons);
  • Corn: 12.166 mln tons (in 2023/24 MY – 12.465 mln tons).
  • Flour: 43.3 K tons (in 2023/24 MY – 52 K tons), including wheat flour – 39.9 K tons.

Since the beginning of the 2024/25 MY, the EU has imported 3.25 mln tons of Ukrainian wheat.

Corn exports to the EU amounted to almost 6.4 million tons.

Planting

Sown areas in the 2024/25 season will remain at the previous level — over 23 mln ha.

Grain crops will cover 11.067 mln ha (48.1% of the total area), including:

  • Corn – 4.145 mln ha.
  • Spring barley – 790 K ha.
  • Spring wheat – 222.7 K ha.
  • Peas, oats, buckwheat, millet – over 550 K ha together.

Oilseeds will occupy 8.892 mln ha (38.7% of the total).

The largest share belongs to sunflower (5.171 mln ha), followed by soybeans and rapeseed.

Winter grains have been sown on 5.2415 mln ha.

Potato Webinar
On January 16-17, as part of WRRU program, TraveliteAGRO held a free webinar on modern potato growing technologies:

 

✅ 7+ hours of useful information from Alan Perry, an international certified consultant on growing agricultural crops (the USA).

✅ Viktor Rybalko, Deputy Head of the Adelaide Farming Group for Production, shared his experience on implementation of Kinsey/Albrecht technology. The farm has been working with Alan Perry on this technology since 2021 (4 years already).

✅ 75+ participants-listeners on Zoom (over two days).

✅ 550+ viewers of the broadcast on YouTube (over two days).

✅ Live discussion and exchange of experience in the Viber group.

Power of Agro Changes

  • On January 23, 2025, the awarding ceremony of the winner and finalists of the competition “POWER OF AGRO CHANGES” took place.
  • The event with the support of the USAID Agrarian and Rural Development Program – AGRO, brought together innovative farmers who implement modern solutions to increase the efficiency of farms.
  • The competition collected more than 120 applications from all over Ukraine
  • The expert council selected 9 finalists, and another one was selected by online voting.
  • The TraveliteAGRO team also joined the competition and supported the finalists. We provided a free one-year access to all training courses of the TraveliteAGRO school and free access to the online part of Field Agricultural Coiunsil 2025.