MOSCOW, Nov 14 — Russia’s growth rate slowed to one per cent in the third quarter, preliminary official data showed yesterday, as the war in Ukraine held back the economy.

The 1.0 growth in the three months to the end of September compared to the same period last year, as calculated by the official statistics agency Rosstat, beat the 0.6 forecast made by the economy ministry last month.

But that was less than the 1.3 per cent expansion the Russian economy managed in the second quarter.

The Russian economy had contracted 0.2 per cent in the first quarter, its first quarterly contraction in three years.per