The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) increased sales of foreign currency on the interbank market last week by $144.27 million, or 36.8%, to $536.17 million, according to statistics on the regulator’s website.
According to the statistics, the National Bank bought only $0.06 million last week, compared to $6.63 million a week ago.
The data that the regulator managed to publish during this time shows that the negative balance between the volume of currency purchases by the population and the volume of its sales last week was volatile: from $16.6 million over the weekend and Monday, the amount increased to $22.1 million on Tuesday and $24.2 million on Wednesday, but on Thursday it fell to $17.2 million.
Along with the increase in interventions, the official hryvnia exchange rate against the dollar weakened by 19 kopecks to 41.3879 UAH/$1 last week.
On the cash market, the dollar also rose in price, but much less: from the level of 40.87-41.00, it reached a local peak of 41.16-41.30 UAH/$1 on April 10, but then the hryvnia strengthened to 40.95-41.10 UAH/$1.
As reported, Ukraine’s international reserves amounted to $42.4 billion as of April 1, 2025, up 5.6%, or $2.23 billion, from a month ago.
