In December 2025, consumer price growth in Ukraine slowed to 0.2% compared with the previous month. On an annual basis, inflation also decelerated to 8%, the State Statistics Service reported.<\/p>\n
The agency recalled that in December 2024 consumer prices rose by 1.4%, so on a year-on-year basis inflation as of December this year declined to 8% from 9.3% in November and was lower than inflation for 2024 as a whole, which stood at 12%.<\/p>\n
It is noted that in December core inflation also fell to 0.1% from 0.3% in November and 0.6% in October. Given that in December 2024 it amounted to 1.3%, year-on-year core inflation also slowed to 8% by the end of the year, down from 9.3% in November and 10.2% in October.<\/p>\n
In the consumer market in December, prices for food and non-alcoholic beverages overall remained unchanged. At the same time, prices rose by 0.7% to 5.6% for eggs, grain products, fish and fish products, bread, sunflower oil, lard, vegetables, beef, and milk.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, prices fell by 0.2% to 4.1% for fruit, sugar, poultry meat, pork, rice, fermented dairy products, non-alcoholic beverages, and butter.<\/p>\n
Prices for alcoholic beverages and tobacco products increased by 1.0%, mainly due to a 1.9% rise in tobacco prices.<\/p>\n
Clothing and footwear became cheaper by 3.9%, including a 4.4% decline in footwear prices and a 3.6% decrease in clothing prices.<\/p>\n
Transport prices rose by 0.7%, mainly due to a 1.3% increase in rail passenger fares and a 1.1% rise in fuel and lubricants prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":150953,"menu_order":0,"template":"","newscat":[9],"newstag":[],"issues":[],"class_list":["post-150952","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","newscat-novosti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/150952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"newscat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newscat?post=150952"},{"taxonomy":"newstag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newstag?post=150952"},{"taxonomy":"issues","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issues?post=150952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}