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The top exports of Ukraine are Corn ($6.02B), Seed Oils ($5.54B), Wheat ($3.27B), Iron Ore ($2.97B), and Rapeseed ($1.55B), exporting mostly to Poland ($6.7B), Romania ($3.94B), Turkey ($3.02B), China ($2.6B), and Germany ($2.43B). Agricultural products are Ukraine's most important exports. In 2021, they totalled $27.8 billion, accounting for 41 percent of the country's $68 billion in overall exports. Ukraine is normally the world's top producer of sunflower meal, oil, and seed and the world's top exporter of sunflower meal and oil. So no they do not need coal, they have plenty of natural gas or can make hydrogen. On the moment, it is cheaper to buy steel than to make it with the surplus on the world market. In March 2017, the Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko signed a decree that banned the movement of goods to and from territories controlled by the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic, which stopped coal from the Donets Black Coal Basin being used in the rest of the country. So after 7 years they now suddenly need it to survive, yeah ppfff.