KIEV, Oct. 27 – The deficit of the current account of Ukraine's balance of payments in September 2010 more than halved compared to August: from $565 million to $259 million, according to Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of the group of advisors to the National Bank of Ukraine governor.

"The macroeconomic interpretation of the result is the following: in September the economic growth pace was higher in Ukraine, and the gap between production and consumption narrowed," he said on Tuesday.