Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin has said that in 2017 German companies created 2,000 new jobs in Ukraine.

"In 2017, according to our approximate calculations, German companies created at least 2,000 jobs in Ukraine," Klimkin said at a joint press conference with German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel in Kyiv on Wednesday.

The Ukrainian foreign minister noted that the German automobile industry alone has created more than 30,000 jobs in Ukraine.