A car made by French manufacturer Renault drives in Kyiv on April 8, 2021. Every fifth new car sold in March came from French brands Peugeot, Citroen and Renault. The latter is the most popular car brand with Ukrainians at the moment.
Strict lockdowns and quarantine measures amid the COVID‑19 pandemic barely dented trade between Ukraine and France in 2020.
Bilateral trade with France, Ukraine’s fourth largest trading partner in the European Union, reached $2.1 billion last year, a few hundred million dollars less than the pre-coronavirus year of 2019, but still robust.