KIEV, Dec. 17 – The National Bank of Ukraine plans to take a more active stance on the interbank currency market from the second half of December in order to smooth the pace of the hryvnia weakening, the head of a group of advisors to the NBU head, Valeriy Lytvytsky, told Interfax-Ukraine on Tuesday.

He said that the NBU still has a sum of several billion of dollars to conduct interventions on the market, although the central bank does not set a task to artificially change market trends.