The volume of foreign currency purchases by the Ukrainian population in June 2025 exceeded the volume of its sales by $0.28 billion in dollar terms, compared to $0.25 billion in May this year and $0.97 billion in June last year.
According to the NBU’s website, compared to May, cash purchases increased by $11.6 million to $1 billion 796.1 million, while sales decreased by $30.2 million to $1 billion 474.2 million.
The NBU clarified that in June, households bought $1 billion 158.3 million less in cash than in May, and sold $1 billion 114.7 million less, down $56.5 million.
At the same time, household purchases of cash euros increased by $62.5 million in dollar terms in June, to $577.2 million, while sales increased by only $6.2 million, to $301.2 million.
As for non-cash foreign currency, in June, purchases by households decreased by $11.0 million to $307.5 million, while sales increased by $3.4 million to $347.3 million, which increased the positive balance in this market to $39.7 million.
As for bank clients’ transactions with non-cash foreign currency, both purchases and sales decreased in June compared to May: purchases fell by $181.9 million to $8 billion 371.3 million, while sales decreased by $244.8 million to $6 billion 349.8 million.
Interbank transactions in June increased by $221.8 million to $6 billion 255.2 million compared to May.
Compared to June 2024, purchases of non-cash foreign currency by bank customers increased by $175.6 million, while sales decreased by $411.2 million. At the same time, transactions between banks increased by $614.0 million.
In the cash foreign exchange market, the hryvnia exchange rate did not change significantly in June compared to May, and the official hryvnia exchange rate weakened by only 11 kopecks to 41.64 UAH/$1. June was characterized by very close values of the cash and non-cash exchange rates, and on some days the dollar was cheaper on the cash market.
At the same time, due to the dollar’s decline on the global currency market, the euro appreciated significantly again in June in Ukraine, for example, by UAH 1.98 to UAH 48.78/EUR1 at the official exchange rate.
In June, the National Bank’s net foreign exchange interventions increased to $2.961 billion from $2.923 billion in May this year, but this is slightly less than $2.986 billion in June last year.
