KIEV, Feb. 29 – Remittances outflow from Ukraine fell by 33% in 2015, to $431 million in the equivalent, and remittances inflow to Ukraine decreased by 35%, to $2.526 billion in equivalent, Deputy Director of the payment systems department at the National Bank of Ukraine Olena Makhayeva said at the conference entitled "Innovations and Security of Remittance systems and Online Payments."

"Unfortunately, the figures are not good as in the previous years. If in 2014, the fall in remittances inflow was 21%, in 2015 it was 35%. If we speak about the remittances outflow in 2014 it fell by 22% and in 2015 – by 33%," she said.