The regulator’s message indicates that this dynamics is due to the NBU’s foreign exchange interventions to maintain exchange rate stability, as well as Ukraine’s debt payments in foreign currency and international aid receipts that decreased compared to previous months.
According to the regulator, the government’s foreign currency accounts with the NBU received $898.9 million. Of this, $512.1 million came from the placement of foreign currency bonds of the domestic government loan, and another $386.8 million came from borrowed and grant funds from Japan, which came through the World Bank.
In turn, $441.6 million was required to service and repay government debt in foreign currency.
Earlier, the International Monetary Fund stated that the lack of external assistance would seriously harm the Ukrainian economy.