KIEV, May 18 – The growth of Ukraine's gross domestic product in January through April may be between 5.8% and 6% compared to the same period last year, due to higher output in industry, according to Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of the advisors to the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine.

"The relative worsening of performance in agriculture and retail trade [in April 2010] was more than compensated for by the performance of industry, construction and the wholesale trade… According to rough estimates, GDP dynamics January through April may be close to 5.8-6% with due regard to the comparative base effect, which is becoming weak," he told Interfax-Ukraine on Monday.