KIEV, Sept. 7 – The growth of industrial prices in Ukraine in August 2011 sped up to 0.5%, against 0.1% in July, 0.5% in June, 2.6% in May and 3.4% in April, the State Statistics Service reported.

Since the beginning of the year, industrial prices have grown by 16.3%.

The statistics service says that industrial prices in August 2010 saw a 0.9% increase, therefore the growth of industrial prices in annual terms (compared to the same month of the previous year) in August 2011 slowed to 19.9%, against 20.3% in July 2011 compared to July 2010 and 20% in June 2011 compared to June 2010.