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The largest amount came from the USA, the UK, and Israel.
The volume of remittances through digital services and PrivatBank offices in 2018 grew by 25% to $2.6 billion.
Over 60% of remittances were received exclusively via digital services, according to the bank's press service.
Referring to the statistics of the National Bank of Ukraine on $5.67 billion of money transfers through official channels, PrivatBank said it accounted for 45% of the total volume of transfers from labor migrants.
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According to the bank, last year, the largest amount of remittances to Ukraine came from the USA (16%), the UK (8%), Israel (6%), Germany (5%), Russia (5%), Italy (5%), Poland (4%), the United Arab Emirates (2.7%), Turkey (2.5%) and Cyprus (2%).
As UNIAN reported earlier, the National Bank estimated the volume of remittances to Ukraine in 2018 at $10.888 billion, which was 17.5% up from 2017.