KIEV, Aug. 18 – Ukraine's Antimonopoly Committee has permitted Metinvest B.V. (the Netherlands), a holding company of Ukraine's largest metallurgical Metinvest holding, to acquire public joint-stock company Mariupol-based Illich steel mill and private joint-stock company Illich-Steel.

"As a result of this merger, Ukraine will get a powerful player on foreign markets," the committee's press service quotes the committee's head, Oleksiy Kostusev, on Wednesday as saying.