KIEV, Feb. 24 – The trends of the exchange rate and currency reserve security, which were positive in January, received a new push in February and have become even stronger, according to Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of the group of advisors to the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine.

"As of February 23, reserves returned to the level of early February - $35 billion," he told Interfax-Ukraine.

He said that since the start of the month, the NBU had sold around $500 million, compared to $422 in January, while inflows from exports and other sources were growing as well.