The national Bank of Ukraine for two years, spent $22 billion on maintaining UAH
The former management of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) for 2012-2013 spent $22 billion on the maintenance of the national currency at the level of 8 UAH per dollar. About this stated the head of the NBU Valeria Gontareva in the program " ".
" In order to maintain the fixed rate in the amount of eight UAH, the previous management of the national Bank only for the last 2 years spent on this $ 22 billion of foreign exchange reserves of the country. This $ 4 billion they spent Another for January and February of this year, " said Gontareva.
She also added that the national Bank of Ukraine will impose strict administrative measures if the situation on the currency market to stabilize in the near future.
The fall of the Ukrainian currency growing by leaps and bounds due to the unstable situation In the whole year. The regulator took action by setting the exchange rate to stabilize the market, nodding to speculators and at the same time recognizing that the course has an impact military situation in the East of the country. Despite this, the rate on the black market are often higher than the official one.
in the beginning of this year, the official rate was at 7, 9 hryvnia per dollar. Yet last week the official rate was at level 13, 9 hryvnia per dollar. The national Bank of Ukraine eleven November has set the official rate of the national currency at the level of fifteen, 77 hryvnia per dollar, updating the historical minimum.