MOSCOW, 25 Mar RIA Novosti/Prime. The Austrian group Raiffeisen Bank international (RBI), in view of the negative result of the activities of subsidiaries of Raiffeisen Bank Aval in Ukraine in 2014, wants to reduce its presence in the country by 30%, told reporters the team leader Karl Sevelda. "Management of the Bank together with the head office decided to reduce the weighted risk assets (in Ukraine - ed.) at 30% With a total commitment to reduce costs," said Sevelda. According to him, the volume of overdue loans, by the end of 2014 was $ 1, ? 2 billion or 46% of the norm of reserves, of which 90% was unstable regions of Donbass. "Business decreased to a very low base - up to multinational, agro-industrial organizations," he added. Ukraine's economy will continue to decrease in the forecasts of the Bank presumably at 5. 5% per month in 2015, which has a negative effect on the national currency. This presumably two-thirds of Aval loans, which amounted to about 2. 5 billion Euro, denominated in UAH, and the rest in dollars. In the fall of 2014, according to the explanation of the NBU, Ukrainian banks were forbidden to charge interest and penalties on loans granted to legal and natural persons located in the area of military operations in the Donbass. The national Bank said about the necessity of strict observance of requirements of the law and the responsibility of Directors of credit institutions for noncompliance. Anyway, RBI does not want to sell subsidiaries in Ukraine and collapse of the Business, said before the press conference Sevelda.