Currently Italian companies are greatly interested in investing in Ukrainian businesses.

Italy's Ambassador in Ukraine Pietro Giovanni Donnici reported about this in an interview with the Den newspaper.

"Many companies of Italian origin want to invest into the Ukrainian businesses today," he admitted.

The areas of collaboration in which Italian companies have the intension in include ferrous metallurgy, construction, and science.

"There is a broad area of acting in Ukraine," he said.

Moreover, according to his words, ties between Ukraine and Italy are strengthening every year and contacts between Ukrainian and Italian sides in various industries are broadening and joint enterprises and projects are being created not only in the area of business, but also in the areas of culture, education, and science.

As it was earlier reported, Italy is ready to develop cooperation with Ukraine in the area of preventing illegal export of cultural items.