Company: KYIV
Filing Date: 2025-07-10
Form Type: F-4/A
Source: 0001213900-25-062760
Chunk: 130

Company: Kyivstar Group Ltd.
Filing Date: 2025-07-10
Form: F-4/A
Chunk 130
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, production and satisfactory delivery of the supplies, support services and equipment that we source from them. For example, in May and August 2019, the U.S. Department of Commerce added Huawei and 114 of its affiliates to its “Entity List,” prohibiting companies globally from directly or indirectly exporting, re -exportingor transferring (in -country) all items subject to U.S. export control jurisdiction to Huawei without authorization and procuring items from Huawei when they know or have reason to know that the items were originally procured by Huawei in violation of U.S. export control regulations. In August 2020, the U.S. Department of Commerce further expanded its export control restrictions targeting Huawei. This development continues to be a factor in the management of our supply chain. Despite the Company’s efforts to find alternative suppliers and reduce dependence on suppliers subject to U.S export control restrictions by diversifying the Company’s supply chain, the Company continues to source equipment and services from Huawei, and further restrictions adopted by the United States, or any other applicable jurisdiction, on Huawei, or increased tensions between the United States and China, could potentially have a significant impact on our operations. Specifically, any restriction on Huawei’s ability to deliver equipment or services, or on our ability to receive such equipment or services, could adversely impact our business, the operation of our networks and our ability to comply with the terms of our operating licenses and local laws and regulations. 39 We have and may continue to outsource all or a portion of construction, maintenance services, IT infrastructure hosting and network capabilities. For example, our digital stacks and data management platforms are dependent on third parties, and we have also entered into outsourcing initiatives. As a result, our business could be materially harmed if our agreements with third parties were to terminate, if our partners experience certain negative developments (financial, legal, regulatory or otherwise), if they become unwilling or unable to service our businesses, or a dispute between us and such parties occurs, which causes our suppliers to be unable to fulfill their obligations under our agreements with them on a timely basis, or at all. If such events occur, we may attempt to renegotiate the terms of such agreements with the third parties. However, there can be no assurance that the terms of such amended agreements will be more favorable to us than those of the original agreements. We also depend on third parties, including software providers and service providers, for our day -to -daybusiness operations. We cannot assure you that our suppliers will continue to provide services and products to us at attractive