Ukraine’s aggregate public debt in November 2022 rose by 4.2%: in dollar terms – by $4.34 billion, to $107.46 billion, in UAH – by UAH 158.7 billion, to UAH 3.930 trillion, according to the Ministry of Finance website.
According to them, direct government debt last month increased by 4.5% to $97.69 billion, or 3.572 trillion UAH, mainly due to a loan from the European Union ($2.95 billion) and placement of government bonds ($0.56 billion, or 20.44 billion UAH).
External direct debt, in particular, rose by 6.4% or $3.68 billion to $61.48 billion, while the domestic direct debt increased by 1.6% or 20.44 billion UAH to 1.324 trillion UAH (the equivalent of $36.21 billion).
According to the Ministry of Finance, the state-guaranteed debt in November increased by 1.1% in dollar terms, or $0.1 billion – to $9.77 billion, while in UAH – by 3.83 billion UAH, to 357.4 billion UAH.
The main share of state-guaranteed debt falls on the foreign debt, which rose in November by 1.6% or $0.12 billion to $7.83 billion.
Since the beginning of 2022, Ukraine’s aggregate national debt in dollar terms increased by 9.7%, or $ 9.51 billion, while in UAH it jumped by 47.1%, or 1.258 trillion UAH.
The total external public debt of Ukraine for 11 months of this year increased by 21.2%, or $12.1 billion – to $69.3 billion, while the total internal debt – by 25.5%, or UAH 283.7 billion – to UAH 1.395 trillion.
According to the Ministry of Finance, the share of obligations in dollars at the end of November was 31.22%, in euros – 21.03%, in SDR – 13.62%, in Canadian dollars – 1.00%, in yen – 0.90%, British pounds – 0.02%, while in hryvnia – 32.21%.
The Ministry also clarified that 67.14% of the national debt has a fixed interest rate, while 13.62% is linked to the IMF rate, 6.69% – to SOFR, 4.31% – to Libor, 0.43% – to EURIBOR.
Another 3.69% of the government debt is tied to the consumer price index, while 3.74% is tied to the NBU discount rate. We are talking about government bonds from the portfolio of the National Bank, the most recent are papers with a link to the discount rate, which the NBU buys within the framework of the emission financing of the budget.
Finally, 0.38% of the government debt has a rate linked to the Ukrainian index of interest rates on deposits of individuals, used in portfolio guarantee programs.
Ukrzaliznytsia announces the appointment of seven additional passenger trains on New Year’s Eve, six of which are in the Carpathian direction.
Train number 191/192 Kiev-Lviv on December 30. At 7:44 departure from Kiev, at 15:28 arrival in Lviv. Return trip on the same day: at 8:06 departure from Lviv, at 15:38 arrival in Kyiv.
Train #229/230 Kiev-Uzhgorod via Vinnitsa, Khmelnitsky, Ternopol, Lviv, Slavske, Mukachevo. December 29 at 20:03 departure from Kiev, December 30 at 13:23 arrival in Uzhgorod. Return trip: December 30 at 22:21 departure from Uzhgorod, December 31 at 13:40 arrival in Kiev.
Train #238/237 Odessa-Uzhgorod via Zhmerinka, Khmelnitsky, Ternopol, Lviv, Slavske, Mukachevo. December 29 at 17:00 departure from Odessa, December 30 at 12:02 arrival in Uzhgorod. Return trip: December 30 at 17:00 departure from Uzhgorod, December 31 at 11:06 arrival in Odessa.
Train № 216/215 Zaporizhzhya – Ivano-Frankivsk. December 28 and 30 at 13:05 departure from Zaporozhye, at 4:58-5:50 travel through Lviv and at 8:13 arrival in Ivano-Frankivsk. Return flights: December 29 and 31 at 15:42 departure from Ivano-Frankivsk, at 18:35-19:10 travel through Lviv and at 12:05 arrival to Zaporizhzhia.
№255/256 Kyiv-Chernivtsi via Ivano-Frankivsk and Kolomyia. Departure from Kiev on December 28, 29 and 30, arrival the next day at 5:50 in Chernivtsi. Return flights: December 29, 30 and January 1 at 17:38 departure from Chernivtsi, next day at 9:22 arrival to Kyiv.
№ 211/212 Kharkiv-Lviv. December 29 at 13:43 departure from Kharkiv, December 30 at 8:27 arrival in Lviv. Return trip: at 17:50 from Lviv arriving in Kharkiv at 12:13.
#176/175 Kyiv-Kryvyi Rih via Myronivka, Shevchenko station, Alexandria on December 30. At 6:19 departure from Kiev, at 15:07 arrival in Krivoy Rog. Return trip on the same day: at 8:09 departure
Ukraine at the end of 2022 became the ninth largest producer of wheat with the indicator of 20.5 million tons, which is a third lower than last year’s figures due to the full-scale military aggression unleashed by Russia.
As reported on the site Finance.yahoo, Ukraine this season is ahead of China (138 million tons), the EU (134.7 million tons), India (103 million tons), Russia (91 million tons), the United States (44.9 million tons), Canada (35 million tons), Australia (33 million tons) and Pakistan (26.4 million tons) in wheat production.
In turn, Ukraine produced more wheat than Argentina (17.5m t), Turkey (17.25m t), Britain (14.6m t), Iran (13.2m t), Kazakhstan (13m t), Egypt (9.8m t), Brazil (9.2m t) and Uzbekistan (6.6m t).
According to the publication, the total area of wheat planted in 2022 exceeded 220 million hectares worldwide. Wheat is produced by both developed and developing countries. Developed regions account for 50% of the world’s wheat production, and the total area sown is 53%. About 70% of the wheat produced in the world is used as food, 20% – for livestock, and 2-3% – in industry.
As reported, Ukraine in 2021 harvested a record crop of cereals, legumes and oilseeds in the amount of 106 million tons: cereals and legumes – 84 million UAH, and oilseeds – 22.6 million tons.
A total of 32.4 million tons of wheat, 40 million tons of corn, 10 million tons of barley, 581.5 thousand tons of peas, 191 thousand tons of millet and 110 tons of buckwheat were harvested last year. Sunflower harvest amounted to 16.3 million tons, soybeans – 3.4 million tons and rapeseed – 2.9 million tons.
Agricultural holding MHP, the largest producer of chicken in Ukraine, in November 2022 increased production of chicken by 9% to 64.89 thousand tons compared to the previous month, while its sales decreased by 2% to 60.69 thousand tons, according to the report of the agricultural group on the London Stock Exchange on Friday.
It is noted that the volume of chicken production in November 2022 is only 1% behind the same month of pre-war 2021, while its sales exceeded last November’s figures by 1%.
It is specified that the share of chicken exports in November this year increased by 2 percentage points (p.p.) over October 2022, and by 5 p.p. over November 2021, to 60% and 63%, respectively.
A total of 38,39 thousand tons of poultry were exported this November, up 2% from October 2022 and 5% from November 2021.
The domestic market sold 22,31 thousand tons of poultry in November 2022, 10% less than the previous month and 12% more than last November.
The average price of poultry sold in November 2022 decreased 4% to $1.85/kg compared to $1.75/kg (6% less) in November last year.
During the reporting period, MHP reduced sales of processed meat products and semi-finished products by 15% compared to October – to 2.97 thousand tons, and this figure is still 43% lower than in November 2021.
According to the agricultural holding, in November 2022 sales of sunflower oil jumped second to October this year, and by 91% to November 2021, to 51,19 thousand tons, while sales of soybean oil decreased by 89% to October this year and by 64% to November last year, to 0.84 thousand tons.
MHP also noted that this season the holding is harvesting 335 thsd. ha, with sunflower and soybean crops fully completed and corn harvested on 90% of acreage.
MHP is the largest producer of poultry in Ukraine. It is also engaged in the production of grain, sunflower oil, meat processing products. To the European market, MHP supplies chilled half-carcass chickens, which are processed, including at its facilities in the Netherlands and Slovakia. In February 2019, the agroholding completed the acquisition of Slovenian company Perutnina Ptuj.
MHP posted a net profit of $393 million in 2021 versus a net loss of $133 million in 2020, while its revenue rose 25 percent to $2.37 billion.
Ukrainian businessman Yuriy Kosyuk is the founder, majority shareholder and board chairman of MHP.
Passenger traffic across the western border from 17 to 23 December increased by more than a quarter: on departure from Ukraine – from 243 thousand to 301 thousand people, while on entry – from 231 thousand to 302 thousand, the State Border Service reported on Facebook.
Thus, according to the department, this week the outflow of people from the country, which has lasted five weeks in a row, gave way to a small influx of one thousand people.
Polish Border Guard Service also recorded a net inflow to Ukraine for the last seven days – 15 thousand people, whereas during the previous five weeks of outflow it amounted to 36 thousand people in total.
According to the Polish Ministry, the weekly flow from Ukraine to Poland increased from 153 thousand people to 184 thousand, while the return flow from Poland to Ukraine – from 149 thousand to 199 thousand people.
As a whole from the beginning of the war 8,638 million people arrived in Poland from the Ukraine, whereas in the opposite direction there were 6,814 million people.
According to the State Border Service of Ukraine, the number of cars crossed the western border of Ukraine increased from 127 thousand to 139 thousand, whereas the number of vehicles with humanitarian cargoes reduced from 643 to 593.
The agency warned that queues had increased in recent days, especially at the Polish border, due to the growth of passenger traffic and bad weather conditions.
As reported, since May 10, the flow to enter Ukraine through its western border every day almost a month exceeded the flow to leave. The net inflow during this time amounted to 188 thousand people. In subsequent weeks there was no such unambiguous trend, except for the week of the new academic year, when net inflow was a record 47 thousand people.
In general, statistics showed a gradual return of Ukrainians to their homes: the net influx for the period from May 10 to September 23 was 409 thousand people.
For the first time since May 10, the number of those who left Ukraine in a week exceeded the number of those who entered at the end of September. At that time, the net outflow was 28 thousand people at once, and one of the possible reasons was a reaction to mobilization in Russia and “pseudo-referendums” in the occupied territories, and then the probable reason for the outflow was massive shelling of the energy infrastructure. In total, since that time, the net outflow has been 117,000 people.
According to the UNHCR data as of December 20, a total of 16.595 million people left Ukraine since the beginning of the war (not including the flow of people into the country), of which 8.350 million left for Poland, 2.852 million for Russia (data has not been updated since October 3), Hungary – 1.930 million, Romania – 1.696 million, Slovakia – 1.024 million, Moldova – 726.7 thousand people, Belarus – 16.7 thousand.
At the same time, according to the UN data, 8.711 million people arrived in Ukraine from February 28 to December 20 (excluding Hungary, Russia and Belarus).
Passenger traffic through the western border of Ukraine, ths.
Date from Ukraine incl. Poland to Ukraine incl. Ukrainians number of cars humanitarian trucks, pcs.
23.dec 57 36 50 47 21 87
22.dec 43 25 44 41 20 90
21.Dec 46 27 42 38 20 108
20.Dec 38 22 35 31 19 58
19.Dec 35 21 39 36 18 76
18.Dec 39 23 48 44 20 84
17.Dec 43 25 44 39 21 90
16.Dec 39 24 34 30 19 118
15.Dec 37 23 34 31 19 99
14.Dec 35 20 30 27 18 55
13.Dec 31 18 30 26 18 78
12.Dec 30 19 33 31 17 69
11.Dec 32 19 34 31 16 59
10.Dec 39 24 36 32 20 165
Data: State Border Service
The volume of construction work performed in Ukraine in January-June 2022 decreased by 2.1 times compared to the same period in 2021 – to 36 billion UAH, according to the State Statistics Service (Derzhstat).
According to the State Statistics Service, in June 2022 the volume of construction works was only 22.2% of the June 2021 figure. At the same time the figure rose by 18.5% in June against May this year.
According to the State Statistics Committee, in the first half of 2022 to January-June 2021 the reduction of construction works was observed in all segments of construction. Thus, the volume of construction work in the residential construction decreased by 2.1 times – to UAH 7.6 billion (37.3%), in non-residential – twice, to UAH 9.9 billion (39.5%), in the segment of engineering structures – in 2.2 times, to UAH 18.3 billion (36.6%).
The share of new construction to the total volume of construction work was 43.8%, repair – 27,4%, reconstruction and technical re-equipment – 28,8%.
The State Statistics Service notes that the publication of data was delayed due to the martial law. Data excludes temporarily occupied Crimea and temporarily occupied territories in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
Recall that earlier RAUTA presented an analysis of the metal construction market in Ukraine.
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