KIEV, Aug. 31 - The debt of the Ukrainian public for housing and utilities services in July 2016 fell by 1.1% compared to June 2016 and amounted to UAH 9.7 billion, the State Statistics Service said.

The service said that the indicator does not include the public debt owed for housing and utilities services in the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea and Sevastopol and part of the “Anti-Terrorist Operation zone" in Donetsk and Luhansk.