Capital investment in Ukraine decreased by 1.7% in 2015, whereas in the first nine months of 2015 the decline amounted to 6%, the first half of the year 9.2%, the first quarter 14.8% and in 2014 the figure stood at 24.1%, the State Statistics Service has said.

The agency noted that in the first quarter of 2014 the decline was 23.1%, in the first half of the year 17.5%, and in the nine months 23%.

Last year some UAH 251.152 billion of capital investment was used (excluding the temporarily occupied territories of Crimea, Sevastopol and part of the ATO area).

Regionally, the largest reduction in capital investment in 2015 was recorded in the conflict zone in Donetsk and Luhansk regions - 58.9% and 73.9% respectively, whereas in the previous year the decline in the regions amounted to 56% and 60.8% respectively.

The ATO area is followed by Poltava region (a decline of 30%), Odesa (20.4%), Zaporizhia (15.1%), Dnipropetrovsk (1.8%) and Kyiv regions (1%), whereas in all other regions a growth of capital investment was fixed.

According to statistics, in 2015 the largest rise in capital investment was observed in Volyn region (by 37.7%), Khmelnytsky (36.5%), Chernivtsi (32.4%), Rivne (26.9%) and Mykolaiv regions (26.1%).