Russia increased investments in the Ukrainian company in two and a half times
By the end of 2016, the foreign direct investments in the Ukrainian economy amount to $ 4.4 billion. This is almost 17% more than the previous year 3,763 billion.
Such data are cited by the State statistics service of Ukraine and said that the investments came from 77 countries.
The largest investor business in Ukraine – Russia, which has invested 1,667 billion (37,84% of all foreign investments). Russian cash receipts compared to year 2015 (676,2 million dollars) has increased two and a half times and they are a bit smaller than all EU countries together (1,972 billion, 45% of all investments).
By the way, the largest investor from the EU formally remains offshore Cyprus, which accounts for 427,7 million dollars.
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State statistics service clarifies that most Russian investment flowed into the financial sector. It is worth reminding that the lion’s share of the money went to the recapitalization of Ukrainian subsidiaries of Russian banks on demand of the NBU. Shares of the Ukrainian banks and insurance companies in General in recent years, the Russian business has invested almost $ 4.1 billion, representing approximately 88.6 per cent of all Russian investment.
At the same time, the total volume of direct investments of the Ukrainian business in the Russian economy last year amounted to only $ 1.6 million. It is a thousand times less than the Russians invested in Ukraine.