KIEV, Sept. 7 – The gold and currency reserves of the National Bank of Ukraine still exceed $30 billion, and this is enough to quell a surge of demand for foreign currency, according to Serhiy Korablin, the director of the department for analysis and forecast on the monetary and credit market at the NBU.

"We have enough reserves to even out negative expectations [about the hryvnia exchange rate]," he said

"Gold and foreign currency reserves exceed $30 billion, and this is enough to knock down any possible extra demand [for foreign currency]," he said.