Ukraine's central bank buys US$100 mln on May 2-11 to replenish int'l reserves

Since the year's start, the reserves have expanded by over $1 billion.

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The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) on May 2-11, 2019, bought US$100 million on the interbank forex market to replenish the country's international reserves.

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Over the period under review, the regulator did not sell the currency, according to the NBU's website.

Since the beginning of the year, the central bank has replenished the reserves by $1.025 billion, it said.

As UNIAN reported earlier, the central bank in April 2019 bought $300 million on the interbank forex market to replenish the country's international reserves.

Ukraine's total international reserves as of April 2019 stood at $20.633 billion, which was 0.9% down from the figure as of January 1, 2019.

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