According to the data issued by Ukraine's Cabinet of Ministers, in January this year Ukraine registered a 25.1 percent decline in its finished steel product output to 1.717 million mt, a 25.2 percent decrease in its crude steel output to 1.874 million mt and a 26.4 percent decrease in its pig iron production to 1.72 million mt, all year on year.
The country's production of metallurgical coke in the given month declined by 39.3 percent year on year to 905,500 mt.