Ukraine sees surplus in balance of payments in first five months of 2020

It amounted to US$224 million.

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Ukraine saw a surplus in the balance of payments in January-May 2020.

The surplus in the first five months was estimated at US$224 million against a US$466 million deficit a year earlier, the National Bank of Ukraine said on its website.

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The surplus of the current account for this period was US$5.597 billion against a deficit of US$1.120 billion for the same period last year.

As UNIAN reported earlier, the balance of payments of Ukraine in 2019 was in surplus estimated at US$5.971 billion, which is double the figure in 2018. The country had posted the surplus for the fifth year in a row.

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