At the beginning of the month, this figure was $ 18.7 billion. This became possible due to the successful placement by the Ministry of Finance of currency OVDPs this week.

This was announced by the deputy head of the National Bank of Ukraine Oleg Chury. According to him, banks have surpluses of currency liquidity. Unlike the previous auction for the sale of currency T-bills, in this case we are talking about new investments, and not about reinvesting funds from bond redemption.

He also recalled that the free currency liquidity of Ukrainian banks exceeded four billion dollars, which creates conditions for the Ministry of Finance to cheaply place government bonds.

Churiy explained that in the second half of December, the Ministry of Finance will have to rollover the previously issued currency OVDP. It is possible that the agency will still be able to attract foreign exchange, "said the deputy head of the NBU.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, Ukraine's international reserves in October 2017 increased by $ 98 million and by November 1 amounted to the equivalent of 18.736 billion dollars.