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The Black Sea container market has undergone significant disruption, with Ukraine at the forefront of these changes. Prior to the Russian invasion, Ukraine boasted the highest container volumes among Black Sea countries, with an estimated turnover of over 1 million TEU per year according to local analytical company Informall BG. However, the Russian invasion and subsequent port blockades in 2022-2023 forced Ukraine to halt container […]

The full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine has inflicted massive damages and losses on Ukrainian agriculture and terminated or even reversed the growth of the last twenty years. This article makes an interim assessment of the financial consequences of the war-related damages and losses in Ukrainian agriculture. The assessment is performed based on data from regular monitoring by the Kyiv School of Economics. The estimated damages […]

Before the war, Ukrainian agriculture produced 10% of GDP, employed 14% of the labor force andaccounted for 41% of total exports. Ukraine has gradually become a major global supplier of agricultural commodities over the past twodecades. Before the full-scale Russian invasion, Ukraine supplied about 50% and almost two-thirds ofworld exports of sunflower oil and meal respectively. The main destinations were China (48%), the EU(25%) and […]