In January-April Ukraine increased pig iron output by 9% YoY (including results of January-February 2017 at the uncontrolled territories of Donbass), to 6.89 million tons.
Without the Russia-seized territories the output grew by 18%.
Steel smelting dropped by 1% with seized territories, but increased by 5%, to 6.9 million tons without them.
Rolled metal output increased by 1% and by 8% respectively, to 6.07 million tons.
In April Ukraine produced 1.64 million tons of pig iron, 1.69 million tons of steel and 1.48 million tons of rolled metal, all down by 2%, 1% and 2% YoY respectively. (Ukrainian metal)