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The VKontakte that belongs to Mail.ru Group and has been banned in Ukraine since May 2017 was fourth in Internet traffic in Ukraine, according to a study for April 2018 conducted by Factum Group Ukraine under the order of the Ukrainian Internet Association (UIA).

According to the study, the top five popular domains visited by Ukrainian users were Google, Youtube, Facebook, VK and Ukr.Net.

Average daily share of visitors in April for Google domains was 66 percent, and the monthly share was 84 percent. For Youtube, it is 42 percent and 72 percent, for Facebook – 32 percent and 56 percent.

The same figures for VK were 18 percent and 35 percent respectively.

The top ten popular websites were websites of the following companies and services: OLX, Yandex, Odnoklassniki, PrivatBank ad Sinoptik.

The study did not cover Crimea occupied by Russia and non-government controlled areas of Luhansk and Donetsk regions.