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The arrears in the payment of wages in Ukraine in August 2017 decreased by 6% compared to July, amounting to UAH 2.37 billion, the State Statistics Service reported.
Compared to August 2016, wage arrears increased by 16.1%, or by UAH 331 million. The largest amounts of arrears were at the enterprises of Luhansk region (22.8%), Donetsk region (21.2%) and Kharkiv region (10.9%).
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The data are provided excluding the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol, as well as part of the zone of the Anti-Terrorist Operation in eastern Ukraine.
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