British Ambassador to Ukraine Leigh Turner said about the increase of goods turnover between the UK and Ukraine by 24% to 905 million pounds in 2011, he wrote it on his personal blog.

"On the subject of sales growth, the latest trade statistics between Ukraine and the United Kingdom in 2011 showed that both exports from the UK to Ukraine, worth GBP 543 million in 2011, and exports from Ukraine to the UK, worth GBP 362 million, increased by 24% and in general reached almost one billion" - he wrote, "Ukrainian News" reported.

According to the Ambassador, these figures are the evidence of successful work of the British and Ukrainian entrepreneurs.