KYIV, Oct 7 – Parliament on Friday voted to approve former head of Oschadbank, the state-owned savings bank, Andriy Pyshny, to the post of head of the National Bank of Ukraine, lawmakers said.

Pyshny noted that international reserves had grown from $23.9 billion to $24 billion since the beginning of October, and stressed that he considered the decisions on restrictions adopted during the war to be adequate. At the same time, he indicated that he would keep the key policy rate at 25% for the time being.