Inflation in Ukraine climbed to 10.2 percent year-on-year in August, the State Statistics Service said, following a trend of quickening price rises in recent months.

Consumer prices declined 0.2 percent month-on-month in August, down from 0.1 percent inflation in July. In January-August 2021, annual inflation was 8.7 percent, the same as in the first seven months of this year.

The central bank has forecast annual inflation in 2021 of 8 percent.