KYIV, June 6 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has found it difficult to precisely assess the impact of the launch of the new model of the electricity market from July 1, although the central bank said that this factor would slightly impact inflation over the low share of electricity of the consumer basket.

"[The issue of] operating for this [electricity] market from July 1 is still open. Our official forecast for today envisages that this year prices will rise by 25% from July and this will affect inflation by 0.2 percentage points (p.p.), since the share of electricity is about or less than 1%," NBU Deputy Governor Dmytro Sologub said at a briefing on Thursday.