KYIV, Jan 30 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) improved its forecast for forex reserves of the country by the end of 2020 from $24 billion to $29.3 billion, and to $31.6 billion by the end of 2021 thanks to the significant improvement of the estimate of the surplus of the consolidated balance of payment.

According to the forecast published by the NBU, for 2019, the surplus estimate has been raised to $6 billion thanks to $2.9 billion paid by Russia's Gazprom.