KIEV, Sept. 4 – Ukraine's forex reserves have grown by $2.24 billion or 21.6%, to $12.62 billion, the National Bank of Ukraine announced.

The NBU said that the level of reserves returned to the level of October 2014.

NBU said that reserves mainly expanded thanks to receiving the $1.65 billion second tranche of the EFF program from the International Monetary Fund, $510 million from the World Bank and the European Commission and $400 million from swap transactions and conversion of Chinese yuans.