KIEV, August 3 – After the placement of eurobonds worth $2 billion in the second half of July the Finance Ministry has decided to hold auctions to place foreign currency-pegged government domestic loan bonds and will offer only long-term (five- and seven-year) government bonds in hryvnias.

According to the schedule of the government bond placement published by the ministry on Thursday, the auctions will be held on Tuesdays once a week.

As reported, in July, the Finance Ministry planned to conduct only one primary auction on the placement of foreign currency-pegged government domestic loan bonds compared to 15 auctions in June and seven in May. In addition, the July schedule included the auctions on the placement of two-, five- and seven-year government domestic loan bonds denominated in hryvnias.