Ukraine\u2019s international reserves increased by 4.6% in December 2025 compared with November and stood at $57.3 billion as of January 1, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) reported.<\/p>\n
According to preliminary data, as of January 1, 2026, Ukraine\u2019s international reserves amounted to $57,292.5 million, the highest level in the country\u2019s history since independence.<\/p>\n
In December, reserves grew by 4.6% month-on-month, primarily due to inflows from international partners, which exceeded the National Bank\u2019s net foreign currency sales and the government\u2019s foreign-currency debt payments.<\/p>\n
In particular, $6.91 billion was credited to the government\u2019s foreign-currency accounts at the NBU in December, including $3.91 billion through World Bank accounts and $2.7 billion from the European Union under the Ukraine Facility financial instrument.<\/p>\n
The Ukrainian government paid $668.4 million for servicing and repayment of foreign-currency public debt, including $212.9 million owed to the World Bank. In addition, Ukraine paid $171.4 million to the International Monetary Fund.<\/p>\n
The second factor affecting reserves was the National Bank\u2019s operations on the foreign exchange market. In December, the NBU sold $4.7 billion and purchased $0.5 million for reserves. As a result, the NBU\u2019s net foreign currency sales amounted to $4.7 billion, 1.7 times higher than in November.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe increase in the NBU\u2019s foreign currency sales interventions last month was primarily due to the traditional seasonal factor\u2014higher budget spending and business activity at the end of the year. At the same time, compared with December 2024, the volume of interventions was 13% lower,\u201d the central bank explained.<\/p>\n
The third factor was the revaluation of financial instruments, which increased their value by $1.16 billion.<\/p>\n
Overall, Ukraine\u2019s international reserves rose by 30.8% over 2025, the NBU said. The current level of reserves is sufficient to cover 5.9 months of future imports.<\/p>\n
NBU Governor Andriy Pyshnyi noted that the record growth in international reserves during the full-scale war was made possible by the synergy of three factors: strong support from international partners, the stable functioning of the domestic debt market, and the National Bank\u2019s policy, which \u201cmakes it possible to spend less than the country receives and build up a safety buffer.\u201d<\/p>\n
In 2026, Ukraine expects to receive more than $45 billion from international partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":150948,"menu_order":0,"template":"","newscat":[9],"newstag":[],"issues":[],"class_list":["post-150947","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","newscat-novosti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/150947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"newscat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newscat?post=150947"},{"taxonomy":"newstag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newstag?post=150947"},{"taxonomy":"issues","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issues?post=150947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}