Ukraine’s Open Data Landscape in 2025: Reduced Access and the Need for Post-War Recovery

During wartime, governments often face difficult trade-offs between transparency and security. Ukraine is no exception. According to a recent Opendatabot analytical review, 2025 saw a further reduction in the availability of certain open datasets that had previously supported public oversight, business analysis, and market intelligence.

While some of these decisions are linked to security considerations, the result is a narrower open-data environment that will require systematic restoration once wartime restrictions are lifted.

Current State of Open Data Access

Ukraine’s open data transparency level currently stands at approximately 44%, reflecting both datasets closed since the beginning of the full-scale invasion and additional restrictions introduced in 2025.

Importantly, the closures are selective rather than comprehensive. Most relate to datasets that intersect with:

• defence and security,

• senior public officials,

• property ownership,

• criminal and enforcement statistics.

From a business-intelligence perspective, this does not eliminate access to information altogether, but it reduces consistency, comparability, and analytical depth.

Key Data Categories with Limited Access

Defence-related companies

Certain companies connected to the defence sector are now allowed to request removal of their data from open platforms. This is intended to mitigate security risks but also means that company profiles may appear incomplete in public datasets.

Officials’ asset disclosures

Some senior officials can restrict public access to their asset declarations. While legal under current regulations, this limits the ability to conduct systematic governance or integrity analysis using open sources alone.

Real estate and land data

Changes to property registry access have reduced visibility over business real estate and land assets. This affects transaction screening, asset mapping, and long-term market analysis.

Criminal statistics (selected categories)

The discontinuation of certain aggregated datasets, such as monthly crime statistics, reduces the availability of structured historical data used for trend analysis and contextual risk assessments.

What This Means in Practice

For investors, advisors, and analysts, the impact is practical rather than dramatic:

• Open-source research now requires additional verification layers

• Longitudinal comparisons may be fragmented

• Some risk indicators are less visible in public datasets

• Greater reliance is needed on paid sources, local expertise, and triangulation

This does not make informed analysis impossible, but it does make it more resource-intensive.

Temporary Constraints, Long-Term Expectations

Most of the restricted datasets were accessible for many years prior to the war and remain technically recoverable. From a governance and economic perspective, their restoration will be important for:

• rebuilding investor confidence,

• strengthening market transparency,

• supporting anti-corruption infrastructure,

• enabling evidence-based policymaking.

The key issue is not whether data should be protected during wartime, but how clearly the state has to pursue post-war reopening and normalisation.

Entrypoint Perspective

For Entrypoint, these developments reinforce a simple point:

open data alone is no longer sufficient for comprehensive risk assessment.

In the current environment, effective business intelligence increasingly depends on:

• structured verification,

• jurisdiction-specific expertise,

• cross-source validation,

• and an understanding of what data is missing, not only what is available.

When the war ends, Ukraine will move toward recovery, and restoring open data access will be a crucial step — but until then, informed decision-making requires a more layered analytical approach.