KIEV, July 11 – Industrial prices in Ukraine after a rise of 5.3% caused by the liberalization of the natural gas market by the Ukrainian government remained unchanged in June, the State Statistics Service reported.

Compared to the same period of 2015, the growth of wholesale prices in June slowed to 15.7% from 16.4% in May.

Prices of fuel and metal products grew most of all – by 6.8% and 5.1%, while in electricity, gas, steam and conditioned air production they fell by 3%, coke production – by 3.6% and coal – by 8.1%.