Ihor Petrashko, Ukraine’s economy minister, attends an emergency session of the Cabinet of Ministers in Kyiv on May 4, 2020.
Ukraine has registered 456,800 unemployed citizens as of May 4, an increase of 48% since the previous year, the State Employment Service reported on May 5.
Since the beginning of the coronavirus quarantine, the agency has registered 156,600 people as newly unemployed. Meanwhile, the number of job vacancies has decreased by 60% to 53,000 since March 12.
