Retail trade in Ukraine up by 3.3% since year's start

REUTERS

The highest growth in retail turnover was recorded in Lviv and Kyiv regions – up by 7.6% and 6.9%, to UAH 49.2 billion and UAH 43.9 billion, respectively. The steepest decline in trade turnover was reported in Donetsk region – by 3.6% to UAH 27.6 billion, the statistics service said.

Retail turnover in the city of Kyiv rose by 3.9% in the period under review, to UAH 131 billion.

The data is calculated excluding the temporarily-occupied territory of the Russian-annexed Crimea and part of the Anti-Terrorist Operation zone in eastern Ukraine.

As UNIAN reported earlier, retail trade turnover in Ukraine in 2015 shrank by 20.7% from 2014, to UAH 1.02 trillion, according to the State Statistics Service.