KIEV, Dec. 27 – The 15.1% fall of the Ukrainian economy through 2009 will be finally overcome in 2012, according to Prime Minister Mykola Azarov.

"If everything would develop under an optimistic scenario, [GDP growth in 2011] would be 6%, and in 2012 we would reach the pre-crisis indicators," he said at a press conference in Kiev on Monday.

Azarov added that real GDP would grow by slightly less than 5% in 2010, and the budget for 2011 stipulates its growth of 4.5%.