According to preliminary data, the reserves remained almost at the level of the previous month. A slight change in the volume of reserves occurred, primarily because of the costs of servicing the public debt.

This is on Monday, August 7, the press service of the National Bank of Ukraine. According to the regulator in general, the reserves are at the level of 15% higher than at the beginning of this year.

At the same time, the central bank explained that in July, changes in the volume of reserves were influenced by receipts in favor of the government in the amount of $ 157.9 million from placement of domestic government bonds denominated in foreign currency, as well as currency interventions of the National Bank in the interbank market, following which a net The purchase of currency by the National Bank amounted to 29.8 million dollars.

In particular, within a month the National Bank bought 64.7 million dollars. At the same time, one currency auction was held in July, during which the National Bank sold $ 34.9 million. Such actions of the NBU were connected with the need to smooth excessive fluctuations in the interbank foreign exchange market that were observed in connection with the coincidence of July 4 in the United States and the working day in Ukraine, - explained in the press service.

Recall, as reported URA-Inform, according to forecasts of the NBU international reserves by 2018 can grow to 20 billion dollars.