KYIV, Aug 25 – Capital expenditure in Ukraine in the first half of this year fell by 34.9% after falling by 35.5% in the first quarter of this year and growing by 21.2% in the fourth quarter of last year, the State Statistics Service said on Tuesday.

According to the State Statistics Service, if in the first quarter of this year UAH 76.914 billion of capex were disbursed, then in the first half of the year – UAH 163.78 billion (excluding the temporarily occupied Crimea, Sevastopol and the territories of Luhansk and Donetsk regions).