KYIV, July 4 – The hryvnia will continue strengthening in the short term, according to bankers polled by Interfax-Ukraine.

"It is likely that soon we will see UAH 25.5 per $1," senior analyst at Raiffeisen Bank Aval Mykhailo Rebryk has said.

According to him, the main factors of the observed strengthening of the hryvnia exchange rate are sales of currency by non-residents for the purchase of government domestic loan bonds and seasonal sales by large exporters of currency earnings from the sale of a new crop.