The National Bank concluded a currency swap agreement to provide one of the Ukrainian banks with liquidity support in the hryvnia because of the cyber attack that took place on June 27.

This is reported by the press-service of the regulator, informs eizvestia. Com.

"To support the work of the money market on June 30, the National Bank concluded a currency swap agreement to provide one of the Ukrainian banks with liquidity support in the hryvnia," the message says..

As noted, this decision is aimed at mitigating the effects of the recent cyber attack on the functioning of the money market.

"The regulator made such an agreement last year a year ago due to low demand for this alternative liquidity support tool," the press service said..

"The National Bank reminds that banks have the opportunity to apply to the regulator to attract hryvnia funds to support liquidity by concluding with the NBU currency swap," - said the director of the open markets of the NBU Sergei Ponomarenko.

As it was reported, on Tuesday, April 27, a number of Ukrainian companies and banks underwent hacker attacks from the Petya virus.

The virus also paralyzed the work of the Cabinet and put out of order the electronic document circulation of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.