Representatives of the agency argue that in the first half of the year the National Bank forecasted a significant slowdown in the growth of domestic product due to the severance of economic relations with the occupied territories, as well as the loss of 49 strategic enterprises in the east of the country. At the same time, the balance of trade balance was achieved due to the growth of grain exports in 2017, through which it was possible to reduce losses to half a billion dollars.

Earlier, Ukraine conducted an assessment of losses from the blockade of the ARDLO, which amounted to more than one and a half percent of the state's annual GDP.

As reported in the "URA-Inform", the National Bank of Ukraine expects growth in gross product by two percent until the end of 2017.