Ukraine's negative energy trade balance increases to $10 bln in 2025 - Dixi Group

MOSCOW. March 27 (Interfax) - Ukraine imported 15 types of fuel and energy products from 69 countries worth $10.53 billion in 2025, up by $1.63 billion or 18.3% compared to 2024 ($8.90 billion), Ukrainian media reported, citing the Dixi Group analytical center and data from Energy Map.

In turn, revenue from exports increased 2.4-fold, from $0.20 billion to $0.49 billion.

"Import costs exceeded export revenues 21.4 times, and Ukraine's negative foreign trade balance in energy goods increased to over $10 billion in 2025 [15.4%]," the center said.

According to Dixi Group, in the import structure for 2025, the largest share in monetary terms was taken up by oil and petroleum products (excluding crude), at 62.8%. Smaller shares were accounted for by petroleum gases (18.3%), bituminous coal (9.6%) and electricity (5.5%). The share of other fuel and energy resources, particularly coal and oil processing products, was 3.8%.

For comparison, in the pre-crisis year of 2021, the import structure was different: oil and petroleum products accounted for 37.6%, petroleum gases for 33.4%, bituminous coal for 16.7% and electricity for just 0.6%.

Imports of oil and petroleum products (excluding crude) amounted to 8.2 million tonnes worth $6.6 billion in 2025, which is $0.2 billion less than in 2024. The main exporting countries remained Poland (16.2% of expenditures), Greece (15.1%), Lithuania (11.9%) and Turkey (9.7%). In total, energy resources were purchased from 52 countries.

Expenditures on purchasing petroleum gases totaling 2.8 million tonnes increased almost threefold, to $1.9 billion.