KIEV, April 4 – The number of unemployed people in Ukraine by late 2011 could come to over one million people if unemployment continues to grow at today's pace, according to Natalia Korolevska, the head of the parliamentary committee for industrial and regulatory policy and entrepreneurship.

"Over the past three months, 215,000 people lost their jobs, according to official statistics. If unemployment develops at today's pace, by May Ukraine will have more people unemployed than during the peak of the crisis in 2008, when enterprises all over Ukraine stopped operating," Korolevska's press service reported.

Korolevska said that in 2008 the spike in unemployment was linked to the collapse of the international markets.