its stock rise

[güey]

Could you tell me please how I should understand Ukraine's stock rising?

At the beginning of 2022 Ukraine was the biggest exporter of sunflower oil in the world, the fourth largest shipper of corn, delivering grain to countries from Morocco to Bangladesh and Indonesia. Corn yields were a third lower than the US and a quarter below EU levels leaving room for improvement. Rich Gulf states were showing particular interest in supplies of food from Ukraine. All of this meant that the former breadbasket of the Soviet Union saw its stock rise sharply bringing with it unwelcome consequences.

 

[emsr2d2]

Put very basically, it means "its value". Ukraine was becoming an important exporter of sunflower oil and corn, and the Gulf states were interested in importing foods from Ukraine. Ukraine was starting to be very valuable to other countries and Russia didn't like it, particularly because, in the past, the money that Ukraine made went into the coffers of what was then the Soviet Union.