KYIV, May 16 – The chairman of the Council of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Bohdan Danylyshyn has doubts that the NBU inflation forecast will be achieved this year.

"In the first four months of 2019 consumer inflation was 3.4%. With these trends, the achievement of the NBU inflation forecast – 6.3% as of late 2019 – looks doubtful," he wrote on his Facebook page.

According to him, among the factors that may contribute to the growth of inflation are: maintaining global oil prices at a relatively high level; the possible cessation of the supply of petroleum products from the Russian Federation and the increase in excise taxes on tobacco products (since July).