REUTERS
The National Bank of Ukraine on Friday again sharply cut the official exchange rate of the hryvnia, by a whopping UAH 5, to bring the currency to a new historic low.
As of 1400 the central bank set the following official exchange rates of the hryvnia against leading foreign currencies:
$100 – UAH 2,313.0580 (as of 1400 on February 5 it was UAH 1,799.9763);
EUR 100 – UAH 2,639.1992 (as of 1400 on February 5 it was UAH 2,060.2529);
10 Russian rubles – UAH 3.3712 (as of 1400 on February 5 it was UAH 2.7503).
As UNIAN reported earlier, Ukraine’s battered hryvnia currency lost more ground against the dollar on Friday, slipping to UAH 23.70/24.20 by the middle of the trading day, compared to UAH 21.80/22.20 at opening of trade.