KIEV, Sept. 27 – An analysis of the balance of payments and other data indicates the volume of cash currency held outside banks in Ukraine at about $70 billion, the director of the general department for the monetary and credit policy at the NBU, Olena Scherbakova, has said.

"Summing up the elimination of cash [currency] on foreign currency exchange transactions and withdrawals from foreign currency deposits, this figure amounts to about UAH 70 billion," she said at a press conference in Kiev on Tuesday.