In May the National Bank purchased USD 332.7 mln at currency auctions, replenishing gold and foreign currency reserves, Economic Truth reports.
This is evidenced by the data of the National Bank, Ukrainian News report.
USD 430 mln were sold and USD 194.8 mln were purchased within first three months at auctions from gold and foreign currency reserves for strengthening hryvnia.
In April NBU purchased USD 528.6 mln at auctions and USD 147.4 mln during the intervention (total – USD 676 mln).
In May NBU conducted auctions exclusively for purchasing currency.
In total, 11 auctions, during which USD 332.7 mln were purchased, were conducted.
As it was reported, in April the gold and foreign currency reserves increased by 4.1% to USD 13.241 bln.
