The day before the dollar was sold for UAH 27.10.
The day before the dollar was sold for UAH 27.40.
The day before, on February 1, they sold the dollar for UAH 28.05 and the euro for UAH 34.85.
Forex rates at Kyiv's non-bank currency exchange booths hit new highs at UAH 35.50 to the euro on Friday morning, according to the Ukrainian news outlet Obozrevatel.
Hryvnia banknotes and coins totaling UAH 361.5 billion (US$12.7 billion) were in cash circulation in Ukraine at the beginning of 2018, which was UAH 20.5 billion ($718 million), or 6%, up from the indicator at the beginning of 2017, according to infographics published on the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Facebook page.
The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has instructed non-bank financial institutions and banks' commercial agents to open separate bank accounts when they accept cash for further transfers, according to the regulator's website, referring to Resolution No. 116, effective as of November 22.
There is no cash money in banks and ATMs in the Russian-occupied city of Luhansk, according to a Ukrainian defense ministry spokesman.
Nationalized PrivatBank has become Ukraine's second bank that will be able to handle the cash reserves of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) under authority of the latter, as well as provide regional banks with cash and take surplus from them, according to the NBU's website.
Acting Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine Yakiv Smolii estimates that the current amount of cash in circulation outside the banking system in the country is about UAH 300 billion, or US$11.45 billion, which increases the burden on the National Bank and stimulates the shadow economy.