KIEV, May 18 – The growth of Ukraine's gross domestic product will speed up to 4% in 2013 from 2.5% in 2012, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development reported in its updated Regional Economic Prospects bulletin.

The Bank also reviewed Ukraine's GDP dynamics for 2012: if the forecast given in January 2012 had 7% GDP growth in the fourth quarter of 2012 against the same period of 2011, the updated forecast is 3.6%.