KYIV, Sept 12 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) said that risks of higher inflation have accelerated through the end of the year from the previous forecast made in July.

"The current pace of the general consumer price index and its components shows that risks of larger deviation of inflation from the targeted range 8% plus minus 2 percentage points as of late 2017 have increased. The fundamental inflation pressure will be moderate, and general inflation would reach the central point of the targeted range in Q2 2018," the NBU said.