Ukraine should achieve GDP growth of 5.1 percent in 2021, President Volodymyr Zelensky’s office said.

The office’s deputy head, Yulia Svyrydenko, cited the figure to journalists at a forum on small and medium-sized business.

Svyrydenko said sustained annual growth of 1-2 percent required additional investments in the economy of at least $3 billion.

The economy ministry last month said Ukraine’s economy contracted 4.2 percent in 2020.

The national statistics office said the fall in the economy eased toward the end of last year, with negative growth of 0.7 percent recorded in the last quarter compared to falls of 1.3 percent in the first quarter, 11.4 percent in the second quarter and 3.5 percent in the third quarter against the backdrop of the pandemic.