KIEV, April 2 - The Ukrainian weekly Fokus estimates the aggregate wealth of the 150 richest Ukrainians at $33.3 billion, with businessman Rinat Akhmetov at the top of the list with $3.7 billion.

Nadiya Shalomova, the manager of the project at Fokus, said at a press conference at the Interfax office in Kiev on Thursday that this figure has dropped by some 70% from about $100 billion since last year.

In addition, the list of Ukrainian dollar billionaires has shrunk to 4 from 21 since 2008, she said.