Industrial production in Ukraine (excluding the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol city) decreased by 21.1% in March 2015 compared to a similar month a year ago, down 22.5% in the previous month, RBK-Ukraine (РБК-Україна) reports with reference to the National Statistics Service.
At the same time, compared to February 2015, Ukraine’s industrial output showed an increase of 9.6%.
In January-March 2015, the index of industrial production fell by 21.4%.
Compared to January-March 2014, the output in the mining and quarrying sector was 72.8%, processing industry - 80.0%, supply and distribution of electricity, gas, water vapour and conditioned air - 84.5%.
