KYIV, Jan 10 - The growth of consumer prices in Ukraine in 2021 accelerated to 10% from 5% in 2020 and 4.1% in 2019, the State Statistics Service reported.

According to its data, in December this year, inflation fell to 0.6% from 0.8% in November, while in December last it was even higher - 0.9%.

Underlying inflation for the past month amounted to 0.4% compared to 0.8% in November and 0.3% in December 2020, which brought its value for 2021 as a whole to 7.9% against 4.5% a year earlier.