KIEV, Oct. 3 – The National Bank of Ukraine in September sank into a negative balance of interventions on the interbank currency market, despite the improvement of the situation in the second half of the month.

"The balance [of the NBU's interventions in September] was negative," Valeriy Lytvytsky, the head of a group of advisors to the governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, said at a press conference on Tuesday.