KYIV, Feb 27 - Capital investments in Ukraine in 2017 grew by 22.1% against 18% in 2016, the State Statistics Service has reported.

According to the service, over the past year UAH 412.8 billion of capital investments (excluding the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea, Sevastopol and part of the ATO zone) were used.

In the regional context, the largest increase in capital investments in 2017 compared to 2016 was recorded in Kherson (50.7%), Zaporizhia (47.4%), Donetsk (44.5%), Ternopil (42.3%), Vinnytsia (40%), Chernihiv (34.8%), Rivne (34.6%), Poltava (33.8%), Zakarpattia (32.4%), Ivano-Frankivsk (32.1%), Dnipropetrovsk (28.9%), Odesa (28.8%), Lviv regions (26%) and Kyiv (21.4%).