REUTERS

In January, the banks sold $144.4 million of cash currency to the population, buying $197.8 million over the same period.

Read alsoUkraine’s central bank spends almost $80 mln to support hryvnia in JanuaryAs UNIAN reported earlier, the net sales of foreign currency by the Ukrainian population in 2016 totaled $2.48 billion, which is 1.6 times higher year-over-year.