KIEV, Feb. 10 – The share of Ukrainian banks with capital of Russian state-run bank groups of total assets of all solvent banks in Ukraine fell to 8.77% in 2016 from 10.33%, according to statistics published by the National Bank of Ukraine.

The NBU said that assets of BM Bank decreased by 44.5%, to UAH 1.752 billion. Assets of VTB Bank and Prominvestbank (all based in Kiev) fell by 19.4% and 17.6%, to UAH 20.64 billion and UAH 34.234 billion respectively.

Assets of Sberbank (Kiev) last year dropped by 6.7%, to UAH 48.356 billion, while assets of VS Bank (Lviv) grew by 6.6%, to UAH 3.91 billion.