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KYIV, March 6 (Reuters) - Ukraine's economy ministry has
lowered its GDP growth forecast for 2023 to 1%, the Interfax
Ukraine news agency quoted a deputy minister as saying on
Monday.
The ministry had previously projected that the economy,
which has been hit by Russia's invasion and shrank by about a
third last year, would grow 3.2% this year.
Speaking at an event in Kyiv, deputy economy minister
Oleksiy Sobolev said the new figure was based on the assessment
that fighting would continue beyond the middle of this year.
He also projected that inflation would fall to 24% from
26.6% last year, Interfax reported.
The economy ministry was not immediately available to
respond to Reuters questions about the Interfax report.
(Reporting by Dan Peleschuk and Olena Harmash, Editing by
Timothy Heritage)
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