KIEV, June 19 – The National Bank of Ukraine has improved the assessment of Ukraine's gross foreign debt for January-March 2009 to $99.159 billion from $101 billion, the NBU said on its official Web site.

According to the report, the assessment of a change in the size of gross foreign debt January through March in monetary terms changed slightly: the country's gross liabilities shrank by $2.495 billion, or 2.5%.