Ukraine\u2019s economy remains challenging at the start of the year. According to estimates by the Ministry of Economy, GDP fell by 1.2% in January\u2013February. This was reported by Economy Minister Oleksii Soboliev during a Q&A session with the government in the Verkhovna Rada.<\/p>\n
In 2025, the economy showed growth of 1.8%, while inflation stood at 8%.<\/p>\n
According to calculations by Ekonomichna Pravda, the decline in the first two months of 2026 effectively offset about 66% of last year\u2019s GDP growth.<\/p>\n
Among the reasons for the deterioration, the minister cited intensified Russian attacks, unusually cold weather, and energy constraints that forced some enterprises to suspend operations.<\/p>\n
The sectors most negatively affected were electricity supply, extractive industries, metallurgy, and transport.<\/p>\n
At the same time, Soboliev noted that some of these factors are temporary. Despite the overall decline, certain sectors showed positive dynamics: in January, domestic trade grew by 13%, construction by 3%, and manufacturing indicators also increased.<\/p>\n
In addition, according to the National Bank of Ukraine, the business sentiment index rose to 45.9 in February from 41 in January, while goods exports increased by 1.7% in January and by a further 3.6% in February.<\/p>\n
The Ministry of Economy expects economic activity to begin recovering alongside warmer weather and improvements in the energy sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":151379,"menu_order":0,"template":"","newscat":[9],"newstag":[],"issues":[],"class_list":["post-151378","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","newscat-novosti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/151378","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\/151379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"newscat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newscat?post=151378"},{"taxonomy":"newstag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newstag?post=151378"},{"taxonomy":"issues","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issues?post=151378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}