KIEV, July 17 - Moody's Investors Service today changed its outlook to negative from stable for the local-currency (LC) debt and deposit ratings of Subsidiary Bank Sberbank of Russia (Ba2) and First Ukrainian International Bank (B2).

"This aligns the banks' outlooks with the negative outlook on the government of Ukraine's B2 rating and reflects the extent to which the banks' creditworthiness is correlated with that of the country's national government," reads an agency report.