KYIV, July 20 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has decided to withdraw Sense Bank (formerly Alfa-Bank) from the market and turned to the government with a proposal to nationalize it, NBU Governor Andriy Pyshnyy said.

"The board of the National Bank ... decided to withdraw the systemically important Sense Bank from the market and made a proposal to the Cabinet of Ministers regarding the participation of the state in this procedure," he said at a briefing in Kyiv on Thursday.