Ukraine’s Largest Marketplace Directs All Biosphere Sales’ Revenue to Dnipro Plant Rebuild

Ukraine’s largest marketplace, Rozetka, announced that it will direct all sales revenue from Biosphere products to reconstruction of Biosphere’s warehouse – which was destroyed by a Russian missile strike in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro on April 10.

The initiative will last until May 10, Rozetka said.

“We are uniting to help: 100% of the profit from all Biosphere goods on Rozetka will be directed toward rebuilding the company’s warehouses,” it wrote.

Russia’s missile strike, which apparently targeted Biosphere infrastructure, killed one 42-year-old employee and injured nearly a dozen others. 

Biosphere is one of Ukraine’s biggest companies, producing diapers, wipes, and other civilian products. According to Forbes Ukraine, its revenue in 2024 increased by a third to Hr.7.5 billion ($181.1 billion).

According to Biosphere, the KPD Plant, opened in 2002, is the company’s first and largest production-logistics complex.

In 2020, Biosphere launched diaper production at KPD Plant with €7 million ($7.9 million) in investments, NV reported.

Biosphere’s production facilities in Ukraine include four plants in the Dnipropetrovsk, Kyiv, and Khmelnytsky regions, as well as newly opened facilities in Ternopil and logistics complexes, Forbes Ukraine reported.

The corporation also has a plant in Tallinn, Estonia, operated jointly with the French Groupe Lemoine, where cotton products are manufactured, Forbes reported.

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Just the latest attack 

Russia often targets Ukrainian businesses. 

In January 2024, Russia damaged or destroyed tactical clothing manufacturer M-TAC’s production facilities and warehouses.

It destroyed a Rozetka warehouse in Kyiv in March 2024, Suspilne Kyiv wrote.

In May 2024, Russia’s strike on the Factor Druk printing house, which printed around half of Ukraine’s schoolbooks, killed seven workers and left 16 wounded, Suspilne reported. The company estimates that 20,000 books were destroyed, of which 40% were schoolbooks. 

But Ukrainian businesses often seek to help companies and entities impacted by Russian strikes. 

For example, when Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital, Okhmadyt Hospital in Kyiv, back in July, Ukraine’s biggest companies provided injured with water and food, sent equipment and vehicles, and allocated money to restore the hospital.

Ukraine’s largest telecom company, Kyivstar, donated Hr.10 million ($241,000) for the rebuilding of the hospital, using the Dobro non-government organization to allocate the funds, the company had stated on Facebook.