Director of the Financial Stability Department at the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Vitaliy Vavryshchuk says the share of non-performing loans in Ukraine's banking system is a record high in the entire history of international observations.
Ukrainian farmers reported record high shipments of flaxseeds abroad in the 2016-2017 marketing year (MY, September 2016 - August 2017), having exported 63,000 tonnes of flaxseeds, which was 57.5% up from MY 2015-2016, according to the UkrAgroConsult agency's press service.
Large and medium-sized Ukrainian enterprises produced 5.3 million tonnes of sunflower oil in the previous 2016-2017 marketing year (MY, September 2016 – August 2017), which is 46% higher than the previous season, setting a record over the years of Ukraine's independence, according to UkrAgroConsult.
A 22-year-old Ukrainian tennis star Elina Svitolina following her participation in the U.S. Open for the first time in her career and for the first time in the history of Ukrainian tennis is ranked third WTA ranking, that’s according to the organization’s website.
Ukraine's exports of sunflower seeds in 2016/2017 marketing year (MY, September 2016 – August 2017) grew to 187,800 tonnes, which was a record high over the last five seasons, according to the UkrAgroConsult agency's press service.
Transit shipments of natural gas from Russia through the Ukrainian gas transportation system (GTS) grew by 22.8% in January-July 2017, to 52.3 billion cubic meters (bcm) year-over-year, according to the press service of the state-run gas transport system operator Ukrtransgaz.
Ukraine's agricultural companies in 2016-2017 marketing year (MG, July 2016 - June 2017) exported 43.8 million tonnes of grains, topping an all-time record for the independent Ukraine, the press service of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food reported citing preliminary data.
Ukrainian agrarians have exported a record 43.41 million tonnes of grain since the beginning of the 2016-2017 marketing year (MY, July 2016 – June 2017), which was 4.4 million tonnes up from the previous year, according to the Ukrainian Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry's press service.