KIEV, Nov. 5 - The growth of the US dollar rate on the interbank forex market to the top limit of the UAH 5.00-5.06/$1 exchange rate, supported by the National Bank of Ukraine, is prompted by high demand for currency from Ukrainian banks, which have to pay for their foreign loans under conditions in which the possibility of refinancing is diminished by instability on the foreign markets, head of the NBU Volodymyr Stelmakh says.

"The banks need the dollars that they borrowed in Europe," he told journalists in Kiev last week.