Significantly, trade in December last year compared to November increased by 22.2%, and compared to December-2016 - by 16.1%.

The largest increase in the turnover of retail trade in enterprises in 2017 was recorded in the Transcarpathian, Odessa, Lviv, Cherkasy, Kiev and Vinnytsia regions.

Gosstat emphasizes that the data are given without taking into account the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and. Sevastopol and part of the zone of the antiterrorist operation.

As previously reported in URA-Inform, Minister of Economic Development and Trade Stepan Kubiv announced that the real gross domestic product of Ukraine in January-September of 2017 increased by 2.3 percent compared to the same period last year.