KYIV, May 3 – As of early May, Ukraine's international reserves amounted to $26.8 billion compared to $28.1 billion as of April 1, Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) Kyrylo Shevchenko said.

Now we have an adequate stock of international reserves, despite the timely fulfillment by the government of all its foreign currency debt obligations ... With sufficient international financial assistance, we will be able to maintain reserves at the proper level and even increase them," he wrote in a column for NV.Business.