Last week, net sales of dollars by the National Bank of Ukraine decreased extremely slightly – to $604.9 million from $608.5 million a week earlier, while in the previous two weeks they amounted to $862.0 million and $737.8 million, respectively.
According to the information of the National Bank on its website, from October 10 to October 14, it purchased $8.3 million, which corresponds to the usual purchase volumes during the war, while it sold $613.2 million compared to $615.7 million a week earlier.
In the cash market, the hryvnia strengthened by about UAH 0.3 over the week, to about UAH 40.7/$1, despite devaluation at the beginning of the week by about UAH 0.45 due to massive Russian shelling.
As reported, in September the volume of interventions of the National Bank amounted to $2.75 billion compared to $1.33 billion in August and $1.2 billion in July, but still remains much less than in June ($3.96 billion) and May ($3.3 billion). .4 billion).
In general, from the beginning of the year to October 14 inclusive, the NBU purchased $3 billion 142.2 million and EUR111.0 million on the market, and sold $20 billion 704.1 million and EUR1 billion 789.1 million.
Including since the beginning of the war, the purchase of foreign currency has reached $2 billion 485.3 million and EUR111.0 million, and the sale – $17 billion 933.9 million and EUR1 billion 789.1 million.
Ukraine’s international reserves as of October 1, 2022, according to the NBU, amounted to $23.93 billion (in equivalent), which is 5.9% less than at the beginning of September. At the same time, according to the new head of the NBU, Andriy Pyshny, as of October 7, they again exceeded $24 billion.
