KYIV, April 24 – The share of overdue loans by individual borrowers rose by 4.3 percentage points to 26.6% since the start of coronavirus pandemic in Ukraine, with the figure significantly accelerating in April, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) reported.

The most rapidly over the period, the share of overdue (over seven days) hryvnia loans of the population increased in private banks from about 0.1% as of March 1 to 4.9% in April, and in state-owned banks from 0.1% to 3.5%. In banks with foreign capital such indicator increased from about 3.2% to 4.9%.