KIEV, Sept. 16 – The National Bank of Ukraine announced plans to start holding auctions to buy foreign currency in the amount of up to $10 million a day from banks.

"The sum of currency which the NBU will buy would be up to $10 million a day. In other words, the regulator could buy, for example, $5 million or $7 million depending on the sum that bidders would offer at the acceptable price," director of the open markets department at the NBU Serhiy Ponomarenko said.