KIEV, Dec. 29 – If the pace of growth in employment and fall in unemployment continue, Ukraine could reach the pre-crisis level of employment of the population in 2.5 years, according to the International Labor Organization.

"If employment grows in the present pace and unemployment falls as in Q3, 2009, Ukraine will need two years and a half to resume the pre-crisis employment level," the national ILO coordinator in Ukraine Vasyl Kostrytsia said at a press conference on Monday.