KIEV, June 11 – The National Bank of Ukraine has increased its forex reserves by $2 billion, to $28.5 billion, using only market mechanisms and giving a signal of reliability of the bank's positions to the market, according to Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of the group of advisors to the NBU governor.

"We're on the market, as we want to boost currency reserves. We want to give a signal that our position is reliable. We've bought currency and we'll continue to buy it," he told Interfax-Ukraine on Thursday.

Lytvytsky said that only on June 10 the central bank bought $129 million.