KIEV, July 7 - Core inflation in Ukraine slowed to 0.4% in June from 1.9% in May, 4.6% in April and 10.8% in March, the State Statistics Service reported on Tuesday.

Since the beginning of the year, core inflation has reached 28.2%, while measured in annual terms (compared to the same month last year) it slowed to 45.1% from 46.5% in May and 47.1% in April.

Core inflation excludes short-term irregular price changes under the influence of individual factors which were administrative, seasonal, or related to a specific event. This relates to price dynamics, which does not take into account changes in prices of food and energy prices, in particular tariffs.