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Kyivstar Group Ltd. Announces Closing of Secondary Offering of Common Shares
KYIV, Ukraine and NEW YORK, Feb. 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kyivstar Group Ltd. (Nasdaq: KYIV; KYIVW) (the “Company”), Ukraine’s leading digital operator,
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[{"type":"text","content":"KYIV, Ukraine and NEW YORK, Feb. 03, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Kyivstar Group Ltd. (Nasdaq: KYIV; KYIVW) (the “Company”), Ukraine’s leading digital operator, is pleased to announce the closing of a secondary public offering of 14,375,000 of its common shares (the “Offering”), at a public offering price of USD 10.50 per share. The Offering, which was over-subscribed by 5 times, closed on February 2, 2026, and included Kyivstar shares held by VEON Amsterdam B.V., the principal shareholder of the Company, and 400,000 common shares held by certain other selling shareholders. “I want to thank international investors for their continued interest in Kyivstar. This successful offering demonstrates once again that there is investor demand for innovative, well-run Ukrainian companies like Kyivstar already today,” said Kyivstar Group President Oleksandr Komarov. “We look forward to the next stages of Kyivstar’s journey as a public company. We also remain committed to working towards our goal of making it possible for people in Ukraine, to have the chance to invest in Kyivstar and be part of the Kyivstar story.” Following the Offering, VEON’s ownership of Kyivstar Group Ltd. now stands at 83.6%. The Offering included the exercise in full of the underwriters’ option to purchase an additional 1,875,000 common shares. Morgan Stanley, Barclays, Cantor and Rothschild & Co. acted as joint booking-running managers and as representatives of the underwriters for the Offering. Benchmark, a StoneX Company and Northland Capital Markets acted as co-managers for the Offering. Further information on the Offering The Offering was made pursuant to a registration statement on Form F-1 which was filed on January 28, 2026 with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), and declared effective on January 29, 2026, and the accompanying prospectus. A final prospectus relating to and describing the terms of the Offering has been filed with the SEC and is available on the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Copies of the final prospectus relating to the Offering may also be obtained from: Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Attn: Prospectus Department, 180 Varick Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10014;Barclays Capital Inc., c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, by telephone at 1-888-603-5847, or by email at barclaysprospectus@broadridge...