The catastrophic collapse of the hryvnia continues
Kyiv, September 19 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Ryabov) - The catastrophic collapse of the hryvnia exchange rate against the US dollar continues - today trading on the interbank market ended at UAH 14,9 per unit of US currency.
It is noteworthy that at the end of last year, the government of Viktor Yanukovych included in the budget for 2014 an average exchange rate of 8,5 UAH per dollar.
Last summer, the new authorities of Ukraine promised to maintain the average exchange rate at the end of the year in the amount of 10,5 UAH, and a few days ago the Ministry of Economy stated that in 2015 the average exchange rate would be 12,9 UAH.
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