Fitch Ratings has maintained the forecast of Ukraine's economic growth at 2% in 2017 and improved growth forecast for 2018 to 3.2% from 3%, according to Fitch's press release.
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Stepan Kubiv cut the government's 2017 economic growth forecast to 1.8 percent from 3 percent on Wednesday, citing a trade blockade with separatist-held territories as one of the drivers for the revision, according to the Daily Mail.