Economic blogger Alexander Okhrimenko

Egypt remains a major trading partner of Ukraine in Africa.  The exports volume of Ukraine to Egypt in 2015 was less than in 2013. Ukraine could increase exports  only in Tunisia and Algeria in 2015 compared to 2013 year. Ukraine's exports fell substantially in Nigeria in 2015 compared to  2013 year

Production of main agricultural crops in Ukraine in 2015 has failed.

“In Ukraine there is no economics, only politics,”   “The NBU should be supporting banks, not destroying them. Look at the banks which were closed: UkrBusinessBank, (which investigative journalists have linked to the son of the disgraced former president Viktor Yanukovych), Bank Forum, owned by an oligarch (Vadim Novinsky) linked to the former regime, Bank Delta, owned by a guy who refused to sponsor Maidan,”