Downtime of Ukrainian shopping centers due to alarms decreased to 1.7 business days

In August 2025, Ukrainian shopping centers began to shut down less due to air raids. About said Ukrainian Council of Shopping Centers.

The share of shopping malls' downtime decreased by 1.7% compared to July and amounted to 9.2%. This is also less than in August 2024, when the figure reached 11%.

According to the study, all key indicators decreased: the number and duration of alarms, as well as the downtime of shopping centers during their announcement.

At the same time, the situation in Chernihiv region is the opposite. Downtime there remains high. In Sumy and Donetsk oblasts and in Kyiv, the number of alarms during shopping center operations has also increased.

The top five regions with the highest number of interruptions in shopping center operations due to alarms in August were:

• Donetsk region – 66.4%;
• Sumy region – 55.2%;
• Chernihiv region – 38.9%;
• Kharkiv region – 13.8%;
• Zaporizhzhia region – 7.2% (instead of Poltava).

On average in Ukraine, the time of forced downtime of shopping centers since the beginning of the full-scale invasion amounted to 116.1 working days, and in August – 1.7 working days.

• In May the duration of air raid alarms during the shopping center's operation decreased to the lowest level since 2023 – to 8.4%.