In Ukraine, about 12.8% of the market is occupied by illegal trade in tobacco products. This is reported by Pervy Delovoy, referring to data from monitoring the illegal trade in tobacco products in Ukraine..

It is indicated that such data were presented taking into account information that concerns the territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions controlled by Ukraine..

Experts concluded that the illegal cigarette trade market continues to grow from year to year.. At the moment, this figure can be considered a record. It is noted that studies on this matter have been conducted since 2011..

“According to the results of the study, we see that the level of illegal trade in tobacco products in Ukraine continues to grow, and at the beginning of 2021 reached record levels since the beginning of the study in 2011,” experts say..

It is also important to say that for the budget of Ukraine this means an annual loss of funds at the level of 11.8 billion hryvnia..