KYIV, Feb 1 – Ukrainian shopping mall traffic dropped 28.5% on the year to 362 people per 1,000 square meters as of early 2003 from 506 people per 1,000 sq. m as of early 2022, according to Ukrainian Trade Guild, a retail association.

Yevhenia Loktionova, the head of UTG, said the largest drop was noted at the beginning of the war, in the first quarter, attendance fell to a historic low of 291 people.