Ukraine in February 2016 saw 0.4% deflation from January 2016 / Photo from UNIAN

Inflation in Dnipropetrovsk region was 0.1% and Odesa saw a 0% inflation rate.

The highest deflation rate was recorded in Chernivtsi, Poltava, Luhansk and Volyn regions, where it was 0.7%.

The steepest decline in prices of food was seen in Lviv region (by 1.7%). Alcohol and tobacco went down in price most in the city of Kyiv (by 3.5%), prices of clothes and footwear in the Ukrainian capital declined by 5.7%.

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The report does not include data from the Russian-occupied Crimea and the Anti-Terrorist Operation zone in Donbas.

As UNIAN reported earlier, Ukraine in February 2016 saw 0.4% deflation, or a decline in consumer prices, from January 2016, when there was 0.9% inflation from December 2015.

The National Bank of Ukraine forecasts that consumer inflation in Ukraine in 2016 will slow to 12%.

UNIAN's consensus forecast says inflation in 2016 may slow to 19%.

Ukraine's national budget was drawn up on 12% annual inflation and the exchange rate of the hryvnia against the U.S. dollar set at about UAH 24.1 per U.S. dollar.