One of the largest retail chains has joined the Winter Support and National Cashback programmes: details

The country's largest retailers continue to join state support programmes, expanding opportunities for purchases using budget funds. Ukrainians now have more places where they can use their ‘winter thousand’ and national cashback. Find out which retail chains have joined the programme

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Four more large retailers have joined the state programmes ‘Winter Support’ and ‘National Cashback’. This was reported by the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine.

Who joined the programme

These are the ATB and Tavria V chains (which include the Kosmos delicatessen markets and Pyure supermarkets), as well as Divnozin and LotOK. In total, this means almost 1,650 new stores across Ukraine where you can now pay with funds from state programmes.

What can be purchased

The new retail chains offer Ukrainian-made food products (except for excise goods) for purchase using funds from the Winter Support and National Cashback programmes. The Epicentre and Rukavichka chains are also planning to join the payment programme in the near future.

The 1,000 hryvnia under the Winter Support programme must be used by 30 June 2026. If the funds are not spent, the balance will be returned to the state budget.

Where the programme is already in effect

Ukrainian-made food products purchased with programme funds are available in a number of retail chains, including Auchan, SPAR, VARUS, Torba, Sim23 (Simi), Blyzenko, NOVUS, LIGA PRIM, THRASH! TRASH! and Fozzy, and now also ATB, Tavria V and LotOK. In total, this amounts to almost three thousand stores across the country.

In addition, programme funds can be used to pay online on the ROZETKA and MAUDAU platforms.

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How Ukrainians are using the winter thousand

According to the government, more than 17.8 million Ukrainians have already received the ‘winter thousand’, including about 3.5 million children. In total, more than 11.6 billion hryvnia has been spent. Almost 80% of the funds are spent on utility bills. Other popular uses include purchasing food, medicine, and charitable donations to support the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Funds from the Winter Support and National Cashback programmes can be used to pay for utilities, purchase medicines and medical products, books and printed materials, postal services, charitable donations, as well as Ukrainian-made food products (except for excise goods). Applications for a thousand hryvnias under the Winter Support programme are no longer being accepted, and the list of available goods is posted on the Zyma and Made in Ukraine portals.

Reminder! Ukraine has changed the rules for using funds under the National Cashback programme: now the money cannot be spent on mobile communications, cinema, transport and other entertainment.

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