Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko expects inflation in 2017 to stand at the level less than 10% and until 2019 at 5% annually.

"Inflation, the burden of high prices is what people worry about most of all. This year it will be measured, I hope, with a single-digit figure - less than 10%. But until 2019 this is our joint task, we must achieve th e inflation rate of about 5% per annum," he said speaking at a meeting of the Regional Development Council in Kyiv.