KYIV, April 12 – Alfa-Bank (Kyiv) has raised the forecast of average annual inflation for 2021 from 7.3% to 8.5%, and inflation at the end of the period - from 8% to 8.6%, the head of the analytical department of the bank, Oleksiy Blinov, said.

"Most likely, in April, the acceleration of inflation will take a pause, but in the third quarter consumer inflation will reach the range of 9-10%," the bank's materials, which the head of the department published on Facebook, said.