KIEV, May 8 – The National Bank of Ukraine in 2012 cut the share of non-dollar foreign currency assets in the structure of its reserves.

According to a consolidated financial report of the central bank for 2012, the share of the U.S. dollar grew by 22.6 percentage notches, to 66.4% in the structure of funds and deposits in foreign currency, while the share of euros fell by 3.7 percentage notches, British pounds sterling by 1.4 percentage notches and other currencies by 17.5 percentage notches, to 8.9%.

According to the report, the sum of funds and deposits in foreign currency in the hryvnia equivalent as of December 31, 2012 came to UAH 54.622 billion, a fall of 43.1% year-over-year.