Despite the spring coronavirus lockdown, retail sales for the first 10 months of this year are up almost 8% yoy in real terms

Despite the spring coronavirus lockdown, retail sales for the first 10 months of this year are up almost 8% yoy in real terms, reports the State Statistics Service. In Kyiv, the nation’s biggest market, January-October sales are up 17% over last year’s level for the same period. Nationwide, sales were hot this fall – up 11.6% in September and up 15.2% in October.