In January-May 2025, Ukrainian companies increased imports of copper and copper products by 20% compared to the same period last year, to $77.971 million. This is evidenced by the data of the State Customs Service of Ukraine.
Copper exports also increased by 17.8% to $38.762 million over the same period. In May, the volume of imports amounted to $16.245 million, and exports – $9.635 million.
For comparison, in 2024, the volume of copper imports remained virtually unchanged compared to 2023 and amounted to $140.797 million. At the same time, exports increased by 22.4% to $88.237 million.
In 2023, despite the war, Ukraine doubled its copper imports to $140.795 million (+120% yoy), while exports decreased by 20.1% to $72.078 million. The upward trend in copper trade in 2025 indicates a recovery in demand for the metal from both the domestic market and foreign buyers.
Copper is widely used in electrical engineering, pipe manufacturing, alloys, medicine and other industries.
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“Ukrnafta is studying the world’s best high-tech clean tech solutions to apply them in Ukraine: a team of specialists has familiarized themselves with the practical application of new equipment at a Norwegian state-owned oil producer.
The company is currently working on the reconstruction of the oil and produced water treatment system at one of its regional business units.
As part of this project, Ukrnafta is cooperating, in particular, with Ennox Technology & Partners, a Norwegian leader in clean technology that develops revolutionary treatment plants.
This equipment works more efficiently than market analogues, minimizes environmental impact and improves the quality of produced water treatment to maintain reservoir pressure.
A group of Ukrnafta’s upstream specialists visited the Norwegian state-owned company’s production facilities to test the latest Ennox Technology & Partners systems to see firsthand the high quality of modern clean tech solutions in the industry.
Engineers and test lab teams of Norwegian companies demonstrated sustainable solutions that will help build sustainable and efficient systems for Ukrainian production.
“Ukrnafta is Ukraine’s largest oil producer and operator of a national network of filling stations. In March 2024, the company took over the management of Glusco’s assets and operates a total of 545 filling stations – 461 owned and 84 managed.
The company is implementing a comprehensive program to restore operations and update the format of its filling stations. Since February 2023, the company has been issuing its own fuel coupons and NAFTAKarta cards, which are sold to legal entities and individuals through Ukrnafta-Postach LLC.
Ukrnafta’s largest shareholder is Naftogaz of Ukraine with a 50%+1 share.
In November 2022, the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine decided to transfer to the state a share of corporate rights of the company owned by private owners, which is currently managed by the Ministry of Defense.
Agrarians in four regions of Ukraine have started harvesting early grains and legumes and have harvested 188 thousand tons of early grains and legumes from an area of 74 thousand hectares, the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food reports.
The ministry noted that Odesa, Kherson, Mykolaiv and Dnipro regions harvested 151 thousand tons of barley (against 33.9 thousand tons a week earlier) from an area of 55 thousand hectares (against 33.9 thousand hectares a week earlier). hectares (13.6 thou hectares) at a yield of 27.4 c/ha, peas – 14 thou tons (0.9 thou tons) from 0.6 thou hectares (8.4 thou hectares) at a yield of 16.9 c/ha, wheat – 22 thou tons from more than 10 thou hectares at a yield of 22.3 c/ha.
Farmers in Mykolaiv and Odesa regions also started harvesting rapeseed, which they harvested 4.6 thou tons from 4.2 thou hectares at a yield of 10.9 cwt/ha.
“The harvesting season has started in Ukraine. This is the fourth harvesting season since the beginning of the full-scale war. (…) This harvest is not just bread. It is proof of the resilience, endurance and strength of our farmers. Even during the war, they work on the land to ensure that Ukraine and the world have bread,” Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Vitaliy Koval wrote on Telegram.
As reported, as of June 28, 2024, agrarians in sixteen regions of Ukraine harvested 721.4 thousand tons of grain from 209.8 thousand hectares, including 36.2 thousand tons of wheat from 36.2 thousand hectares at a yield of 31.2 c/ha, 545.7 thousand tons of barley from 145.8 thousand hectares at a yield of 37.4 c/ha, 56.3 thousand tons of peas from 25.9 thousand hectares at a yield of 21.7 c/ha.
In addition, seven regions harvested rapeseed, which amounted to 63.6 thou tons from 31.7 thou hectares.
Thus, the pace of harvesting in the 2025 season is 3.8 times lower than last year, and grain yields are significantly lower.
The Cabinet of Ministers on the initiative of the Ministry of Digital Information (Mincifra) has provided operators with tools to combat spam calls and intrusive advertising, said Deputy Prime Minister for Innovation, Development of Education, Science and Technology – Minister of Digital Transformation (Mincifra) Mikhail Fedorov.
“Ukrainians will no longer receive spam calls … Over time, operators will block spam, advertising and potentially fraudulent calls. These changes will be introduced gradually to give operators time for technical refinements,” Fyodorov wrote in a telegram channel on Friday.
According to the message, the changes are stipulated by Resolution No. 761 “On Approval of Rules for Providing and Receiving Electronic Communication Services,” which the government approved on June 25, 2025.
“Businesses must enter into an agreement with an operator and register numbers from which they can call. If not – calls from these numbers can be blocked automatically. Already soon the operator will be able to block the number on the user’s request in case of a spam call,” explained the Deputy Prime Minister.
Fedorov also announced a number of changes. In particular, in the near future users will be able to view all their expenses in the personal cabinet, as well as to turn off content services independently, without a request to the operator.
“From now on, the Internet speed must be spelled out in the agreement. If the operator promises 100 Mbit/s, and you get 40 – it is already a violation of the agreement. And if the real speed is lower – you can complain to the NECC or go to court,” – assured Fedorov.
According to him, Ukrainians living in the war zone will not lose communication due to non-payment for services, their SIM-cards will not be blocked. During the first entry into the network, a free package of communication will be provided.
July 11 | Kyiv
Every day, agribusiness is adapting to a new reality – reduced budgets, information overload, unstable logistics. And it is marketing, PR and content that are becoming tools for survival and growth.
That’s why we’re bringing together the best of the best for COMMBINE 2025:
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200+ participants – marketers, farmers, bloggers
1000+ ideas for advertising, field events, and content
12 hours of live networking and agri-brainstorming
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COMMBINE 2025: the main agromarketing event of the year – already on July 11 in Kyiv!
The agricultural sector continues to adapt to the new reality: reduced budgets, unstable logistics, dynamic markets, and information overload. In this situation, agromarketers, communicators, creatives, and PR specialists are coming up with new ways to turn challenges into opportunities every day.
That is why Aggeek Agency and Agro Marketing Agency are gathering leading market players for the agromarketing conference COMMODITY 2025, which will be held on July 11 in Kyiv.
COMMBINE 2025 is a field where ideas germinate, tools are tested, strategies are developed, and a community is formed that is able to lead agribusiness forward – even in turbulent times. Here people speak frankly, share their experience, joke about the budget and… make money.
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200+ participants – marketers, farmers, owners, media professionals, bloggers
1000+ ideas for promotional campaigns, branding, SMM and field events
12 hours of networking, coffee, craft thinking and joint agri-brainstorming
Key topics:
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How to talk to a farmer so that he can hear
TikTok, YouTube, Insta – which platforms work in the field
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PR without illusions: reputation in agriculture is not born in a day
Anti-cases and facts that are not written about on LinkedIn
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The introduction of new exams in Ukrainian and foreign languages for postgraduate students by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine violates their rights and will be appealed in court, states Roman Serhiyenko, a postgraduate student and the head of the charitable organization “Charitable Foundation ‘Let’s Change Our Lives’.”
“Postgraduate students have been working for more than a year to defend their legal and constitutional rights. Because last year’s initiative of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, which aimed to introduce additional control measures for postgraduate students who are already studying, poses a rather threatening character for science in Ukraine and is aimed at violating the law and the constitutional rights of Ukrainian citizens, the constitutional rights of scholars, particularly those rights which cannot be restricted during the legal regime of martial law,” said Serhiyenko during a press conference on the topic “The issue of expediency and legality of the initiatives of the government and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine regarding postgraduate students.”
According to him, this is already the third attempt by postgraduate students to defend their rights, with the first two having been rejected. “What is the essence of the problem? It lies in the fact that this unified state exam, which the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine wants to introduce for postgraduate students who have completed their second year of study… in Ukrainian and foreign languages, although this type of control is not stipulated by any educational programs or documents,” noted the postgraduate student.
Serhiyenko emphasizes that the introduction of an additional control measure in such a form violates the constitutional and legal rights of postgraduate students, as well as the laws of Ukraine “On Education” and “On Higher Education.” Furthermore, the possibility of introducing control in the form of a unified state exam in Ukrainian and foreign languages is not stipulated by the National Qualifications Framework, as it is merely a description that does not provide for the implementation of additional control measures.
“Therefore, we were forced this year to file a lawsuit in court to annul the resolution adopted by the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine in order to protect the rights of postgraduate students,” he said.
Lawyer and senior partner of the law firm “Kravets and Partners,” Rostyslav Kravets, declared that there is “systematic activity by the Ministry of Education aimed at destroying science and education in Ukraine.”
“Today, we have a very strange situation with the Ministry of Education and Science, where the minister himself declares that education is used solely for the purpose, as I understand it, not of gaining knowledge, achievements, developing science, or progress in Ukraine, but exclusively for avoiding military service. Moreover, this is done quite provocatively and openly,” said Kravets during the press conference.
Since these initiatives of the Ministry of Education are, in fact, not aimed at developing science in Ukraine and entail the violation of constitutional rights and freedoms of citizens, it was decided to challenge these actions in court and to ask the court to recognize as illegal and invalid the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine dated April 8, 2025, No. 426, in the part of the changes that are aimed at violating the rights and freedoms of postgraduate students, it was noted during the press conference.
Also, in parliament, signatures are being collected among members of parliament under a collective appeal to the Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal.
Source: Interfax-Ukraine
Ministry of Education of Ukraine, Postgraduate students, Rostislav Kravets, Роман Сергиенко
