Kyivstar plans to launch pilot projects this year for joint Helsi–Tabletki products

Ukraine’s largest telecom operator, Kyivstar, which this year acquired digital healthcare marketplace Tabletki.ua (LLC MTPC) for the equivalent of $160 million, plans to launch pilot joint products between the service and the medical information system Helsi, also owned by Kyivstar, later this year. The company also plans to subsequently add integration with ride-hailing and delivery service Uklon, which the operator acquired at the beginning of last year for the equivalent of $155 million, Kyivstar CEO and President Oleksandr Komarov said.

"This vision starts with patient–doctor interactions through the Helsi app. We want them to have the ability to select and book… medicines or pharmaceutical products within a single customer journey, and if necessary Uklon will deliver them to the patient," he said during a conference call on Kyivstar’s 2025 financial results on Friday evening.

"Our specific plan is to launch pilot projects for certain MVPs (Minimum Viable Products) between Helsi and Tabletki during this year, with a clear strategy that we will present to the supervisory board of Kyivstar Group sometime in the fourth quarter of 2026," Komarov noted.

According to him, the group is currently highly focused on integrating the acquired businesses.

"We want to integrate from multiple perspectives, because integrating local businesses into a public company is a challenge. After that we will focus on development strategies and synergies between Helsi and Tabletki, between Uklon and Tabletki, and between Kyivstar and Tabletki."

According to the report, Helsi increased its revenue in the fourth quarter of 2025 by 67.8% to UAH 95 million, while for the full year it reached UAH 311 million. The number of active professionals and doctors on the platform grew by 7.5% over the year to more than 42,000, while the number of healthcare institutions increased by 4% to more than 1,700.

Although the number of appointments booked by patients through the platform last year declined by 1.4% to 2.4 million, the number of monthly active users (MAU) increased by 6.7% to 2.5 million, while the number of paid subscribers rose 3.8 times to more than 57,000.

Online ride-hailing service Uklon, which was consolidated into Kyivstar’s financial reporting in April 2025, generated UAH 3.35 billion in revenue during the last three quarters of last year, with EBITDA totaling UAH 1.1 billion, including UAH 1.42 billion in revenue and UAH 386 million in EBITDA in the fourth quarter alone.

The number of Uklon rides in the fourth quarter of 2025 increased by 8.6% compared with the fourth quarter of the previous year to 43.6 million, while deliveries rose by 21.7% to 1.3 million. Monthly active users (MAU) reached 3.8 million.

The Tabletki service cooperates with more than 14,000 pharmacies across Ukraine and, according to 2025 data, handled 14 million online orders per month.

Komarov said he could not name Uklon’s exact market share due to the lack of transparency in the market, but emphasized that the company is clearly the market leader, while Bolt and Uber rank second and third respectively.

According to the Kyivstar CEO, Uklon’s business is growing due to the further penetration of ride-sharing services and an increase in market share, as well as the development, essentially from scratch, of an advertising business growing at a rate of about 100% per year.

"We have our own strategy. Let’s call it a modern mobility strategy – around Uklon. We want Uklon to expand into the broader mobility segment. We are already conducting some experiments with special buses for the most popular routes, for example to Bukovel… various experiments on how to develop an ecosystem of modern mobility services around the clock," Komarov said.

Responding to a question about the appearance of the Uklon website in Kazakhstan, the Kyivstar chief stressed that no decision on international expansion has been made yet. Outside Ukraine, the business currently operates only in Uzbekistan.

"We are satisfied with the current results, but we want to make sure that our international expansion model has been sufficiently tested based on the synergy between the telecommunications business and the ride-hailing business," Komarov explained.

As reported earlier, Kyivstar served 22.4 million mobile subscribers and 1.2 million Home Internet subscribers as of the end of 2025. In 2025 the company increased EBITDA by 30% to UAH 27 billion while revenue rose by 30.3% to UAH 48.2 billion. In the fourth quarter alone, EBITDA increased by 23.1% to UAH 7.2 billion as revenue grew by 30.1% to UAH 13.5 billion.