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Ukraine's economy may start recovering in the coming months as a contraction in output - battered by a separaist conflict in the industrial east - slows, as shown by a Reuters poll on Aug. 5.

Analysts at 13 Ukrainian banks and brokerages expect industrial output to have shrunk 17 percent in July year-on-year versus 18.1 percent in June, 20.7 percent in May and 21.7 percent in April.

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