KIEV, Feb. 8 – The share of bad and non-performing loans (NPL) today is around 50% of the total loan portfolio of Ukrainian banks, Director of the financial stability department of the National Bank of Ukraine Vitaliy Vavryschuk said at a press conference in Kiev.

"We have revealed during stress tests that the share of these loans is around 50%," he said.

Vavryschuk said that this figure was considerably smaller in the official statistics earlier published by the NBU.