Company: KYIV
Filing Date: 2025-07-23
Form Type: 425
Source: 0001213900-25-066985
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Company: Kyivstar Group Ltd.
Filing Date: 2025-07-23
Form: 425
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may,” “will,” “estimate,” “continue,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “expect,” “should,” “would,” “plan,” “predict,” “potential,” “seem,” “seek,” “future,” “outlook” or the negatives of these terms or variations of them or similar terminology or expressions that predict or indicate future events or trends or that are not statements of historical matters. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding future events, the Business Combination among the Company, PubCo and Kyivstar, the estimated or anticipated future results and benefits of the combined company following the Business Combination, including the likelihood and ability of the parties to successfully consummate the Business Combination, future opportunities for the combined company.

These statements are predictions, projections and other statements about future events that are based on current expectations and assumptions and, as a result, are subject to risks and uncertainties. All statements contained in this Current Report on Form 8-K that do not relate to matters of historical fact should be considered forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, statements relating to, among other things, the Business Combination, the expected timing of closing of the Business Combination, the expected impact of the Business Combination, including PubCo being the first U.S.-listed pure play Ukrainian investment opportunity, potential investor interest and the percentage of VEON’s ownership interest in the equity of PubCo following the closing of the Business Combination. These statements are based VEON, the Company and Kyivstar on management’s current expectations. These statements are neither promises nor guarantees, but involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that may cause Kyivstar’s, PubCo’s, VEON’s or the Company’s actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements in this Current Report on Form 8-K, including, but not limited to, the occurrence of any event, change or other circumstances that could give rise to the termination of the Business Combination (including as a result of a termination of the Business Combination Agreement and/or any related agreements between the relevant parties); the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against the Company, Kyivstar or VEON, any of its subsidiaries or others following the announcement of the Business Combination; the inability to complete the Business Combination due to the failure to obtain the necessary shareholder approvals or to satisfy other conditions to closing; changes to the proposed structure of the Business Combination or the business combination contemplated