Roman Perepelytsia at IREPAS: Steel consumption in Ukraine approaches pre-war levels

Roman Perepelytsia, head of strategy and business development at Metinvest Holding, started his presentation at the SteelOrbis 2024 Spring Conference & 90th IREPAS Meeting held in Berlin on April 28-30, by stating that Ukraine’s GDP growth is recovering moderately after seeing negative growth of 28.8 percent in 2022 because of the war. The GDP growth forecast for the country stands at 3.0 percent for 2024, 5.3 percent for 2025 and 4.5 percent for 2026. He went on to say that unemployment is also decreasing because of the massive refugee outflow from the country...