NEW YORK, June 22 – The stabilization of the situation on the financial market and eliminating the imbalance of the current account has allowed the National Bank of Ukraine, while preserving the flexible exchange rate policy, to buy over the past four months $1 billion dollars for its net foreign exchange reserves, NBU Governor Valeriya Gontareva said.

"The national JSC Naftogaz Ukrayiny also started to buy from the market and bought already about $0.5 billion dollars to pay for the gas contracts. For the first time in over maybe past ten years Naftogaz bought something from the market," Gontareva said.