Ukraine received $1.7 billion from metal exports this year, which is 7% less than in the same period last year and 3.2 times less than in the period before the full-scale invasion.
This was reported by Opendatabot.
It is noted that current export revenues from metals over five months are almost equal to what Ukraine earned from metallurgy in a peak month in 2021. Overall, before the full-scale invasion, monthly revenues from metal exports abroad were about $1.3 billion.
In total, export revenues from metals have amounted to $18.4 billion over more than four years of full-scale war. For comparison, Ukraine received similar amounts in just one year of metallurgical exports in 2010–2012. At that time, metallurgy accounted for almost a quarter of all export revenues from goods and services.
Between 2013 and 2021, the share of metals remained consistently high—on average about 19% of total exports. This year, the share of metals in Ukraine’s export structure has decreased to 7%.
If calculated from the start of the full-scale invasion (excluding January and February 2022), the most successful year for metallurgical exports during the war period was 2025, when Ukraine received $4.7 billion from metal exports. The sector’s share of total exports of goods and services reached 9%.
