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Metinvest paid more than half a billion hryvnias in eco-taxes in 9 months

10 November 2022 13:54 Katerina Belousova

"Metinvest" remains one of the largest taxpayers in Ukraine

For January-September 2022, the Metinvest group paid up to 511 million hryvnias of environmental taxes from the state and local budgets of Ukraine. General payments of taxes and fees of companies and of the Group's joint ventures reached almost 18 billion hryvnias, the reports press service of Metinvest. The CEO of the company Yuriy Ryzhenkov noted that despite the shutdown of several enterprises in Mariupol and Avdiivka, Metinvest remains one of the largest taxpayers in Ukraine. The group tries to support the economy of the country in any possible way.

"The closure of the Black Sea ports due to the war leads to a difficult situation with the logistics of the products of our Mining in Kryvyi Rih, a decrease in the level of loading, downtime of enterprises. However, we are looking for alternative ways to export products, improve operational efficiency, help the army and the population in order to bring Ukraine’s victory closer as soon as possible," he said.

Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that Metinvest spent on implementation of environmental projects during 9 months of 2021 $323 million. Reconstruction was carried out on gas cleaning equipment at two factories in Mariupol. As EcoPolitic previously reported, ecoactivists of the public organization SaveDnipro compared the environmental taxes of 2021 and 2020 to see main pre-war trends.