KIEV, Sept. 9 – The recent increase in deposits in the national currency by almost 4% is an encouraging trend in the country's banking sector, Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko said.

"At the cost of enormous efforts we managed to save the hryvnia, improve the balance of payment and that of trade, which are currently already in surplus, to ensure the growth of deposits in hryvnias by nearly 4%, which is a testament to the encouraging trend in the banking sector," Poroshenko said during an extended meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers in Kiev in Tuesday.