More than 370 requests have been received for two months since the launch of the Advantage Ukraine investment platform. This is evidenced by operational data of the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine.

In particular, more than a hundred requests were received from strategic and portfolio investors from the USA, the UK, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, the Republic of Korea and others.

Within the framework of the Advantage Ukraine initiative, investors are primarily interested in such sectors of the Ukrainian economy as innovations and technologies, agro-industrial complex, production of mineral resources, infrastructure, industrial production and logistics. Projects in the energy and defence industries are also of great interest.

“To stimulate the inflow of foreign direct investments, the Ministry of Economy is actively working with international partners on the mechanism of military risk insurance and on attracting debt financing from IFIs for the implementation of investment projects. Despite the tense military and economic situation, the overwhelming majority of potential investors understand the inevitability of Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic integration and are already ready to consider projects in sectors that traditionally have global competitive advantages or are aimed at the post-war reconstruction of Ukraine,” said Oleksandr Hryban, Deputy Minister of Economy.

The Advantage Ukraine project team, working with the support of the USAID Competitive Economy Program in Ukraine, processes requests from foreign investors and also provides professional consultations and analytical support to domestic companies seeking to attract equity or debt capital. The most promising projects are concentrated in the agro-industrial sector, in the spheres of innovations and technologies and also energy.

According to the advantageukraine.com statistics, tens of thousands of users from 140 countries visited the platform during two months of operation. Most of them are from the countries of the Group of Seven (G7).

Let us remind that the Advantage Ukraine investment attraction initiative was presented on 6 September as part of a major campaign developed by WPP with the support of the President of Ukraine. The platform has collected investment projects and opportunities in 10 sectors of the economy with a total potential of more than $400 billion.