The decline in Ukraine's industrial production in February 2015 rose to 22.5% from 21.3% in January, 17.9% in December 2014 and 16.3% in November-October 2014, the State Statistics Committee reported on Monday.

Ukraine saw a 1.6% decline in industrial output in February compared to January 2015, and in January-February the decline year-over-year was 21.7%.

The service said that the anti-terrorist operation (ATO) zone was not included in the calculations. The indicator did not include the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea and Sevastopol as in the previous quarters of 2014.

The service said that in Donetsk region industrial production in February 2015 fell by 59.4% (in December by 49.1%, November – 51.3% and October – 55.7%) and in Luhansk region it plummeted by 89% (by 87% in January 2015, 83% in December 2014, by 82% in November and 80% in October). Data on the two regions may be revised.

Growth in industrial production in February 2015 was seen in Kyiv, Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia, Rivne, Volyn, Ternopil, Khmelnytsky and Chernivtsi regions – from 5.4% to 28%.

As reported, industrial production in Ukraine fell by 10.7% in 2014.