KIEV, Dec. 23 – One of the biggest ex-shareholders of PrivatBank (Dnipro), Ihor Kolomoisky, has commented on the nationalization of the bank, heaping praise on the government and blame on the National Bank of Ukraine, the website of TSN.ua has said.

"I want to thank the Cabinet of Ministers and personally Volodymyr Groysman. As you know, as a result of the latest wave of customer panic provoked, first of all, by the NBU's (National Bank of Ukraine) actions, we were forced to turn to the Cabinet of Ministers with a proposal to hand over the PrivatBank to the state. I think that the premier and his team have shown real courage by taking this difficult decision. If they had not dared to take this step, it would have endangered the entire financial system of Ukraine," Kolomoisky said in written comments.