REUTERS
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Ukraine's economy in 2015 amounted to $3.76 billion, a third of the sum (30.6%) was injected into production facilities and 27.3% into the finance and insurance sectors, according to the Ukrainian Ministry of Economic Development and Trade.
The total investment since Ukraine became independent had stood at $43.37 billion as of December 31, 2015.
"The top ten investor countries accounting for 83% of total FDIs are Cyprus with $11.7 billion, the Netherlands with $5.6 billion, Germany with $5.4 billion, Russia with $3.3 billion, Austria with $2.4 billion, the United Kingdom with $1.85 billion, the Virgin Islands with $1.7 billion, France with $1.5 billion, Switzerland with $1.3 billion, and Italy with $792 million," the ministry said.
The top ten Ukrainian regions that received the largest sum of the investment were Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Luhansk, Lviv, Odesa, Zaporizhia, Poltava, Ivano-Frankivsk regions, and the city of Kyiv.
The ministry stresses that such split of the FDIs is not conducive to the even social and economic development of the regions and widens the gap of their economy.
At the same time, the ministry says, Ukraine continues to attract investors and remains enough integrated into the global economy.
As UNIAN reported earlier, the total FDIs as of the beginning of 2015 had exceeded $45 billion.
Earlier Economic Development and Trade Minister Aivaras Abromavicius said that Ukraine planned to attract up to $5 billion in FDIs in 2016.