KIEV, July 24 – Ukrainian farmers' losses from droughts late this spring and early this summer amount to UAH 13.6 billion, according to rough estimates, said Serhiy Kvasha, the director of the Agriculture and Food Ministry's economic development and agrarian market department.

"We say that producers' losses from weather and climate conditions in Ukraine, according to preliminary estimates as of July 19 amount to UAH 13.6 billion. These are the losses from shortages of crops compared to last year that are estimated in selling prices fixed as of today," he told reporters in Kiev on Tuesday.