KIEV, Oct. 16 - Philip Morris International Inc. (PMI), the world's large tobacco producer, cut cigarette shipments in Ukraine by 27.5% in July-September 2015 year-over-year, to 4.704 billion cigarettes.

According to a quarterly report of A.C.Nielsen, PMI said that shipments of cigarettes in Ukraine since early 2015, as of late September 2015, fell by 19.1%, to 14.382 billion.

In Q3 2015, the Ukrainian cigarette market grew by 2.4%, to 18.8 billion cigarettes, and since early 2015 it fell by 1.2%, to 52.4 billion cigarettes.