According to the report, retail trade saw the steepest decline in Luhansk and Donetsk regions where it shrank by 78.2% and 67.4%, to UAH 6.5 billion and UAH 25.2 billion, respectively.
The smallest reduction in retail trade turnover was recorded in Lviv (12.7% down, to UAH 46.3 billion, and Kyiv regions (13% down, to UAH 42.8 billion). At the same time, retail trade turnover in the city of Kyiv slid by 14.9% over the period under review, to UAH 127.3 billion.
As UNIAN reported earlier, retail trade turnover in Ukraine, not including the occupied Crimea and Donbas, saw a 22.3% decline in January-September 2015 year-over-year, to UAH 735 billion (in comparable prices).
In 2014, retail trade turnover in Ukraine shrank by 8.6% from 2013, to UAH 903.535 billion.
