REUTERS
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) in September bought $152.249 million on Ukraine's interbank forex market at an average weighed rate of UAH 21.560201 per U.S. dollar, according to a posting on the NBU's official website.
The central bank did not sell foreign currency last month.
The amount of transactions with non-cash foreign currency on the interbank forex market in September (purchase and sale in the U.S. dollar equivalent) was $12.066 billion.
As UNIAN reported earlier, the NBU's gold and foreign currency reserves expanded by 1.2%, or $157 million, to $12.774 billion, according to rough estimates.
In September 2015, the NBU started buying foreign currency at auctions to replenish its forex reserves. The auctions are held on a daily basis as of September 17.
In keeping with a cooperation program with the International Monetary Fund, the NBU aims to boost its gold and forex reserves to $18 billion by the end of 2015.