KYIV, Feb 6 – Ukraine's forex reserves reached $18.444 billion as of early February 2018, which is 2% less than a month earlier, the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) posted the preliminary data on its official website on Tuesday.

The National Bank said that the reduction in reserves is linked to payments by the government for servicing and repaying the state and guaranteed debt in foreign currency in the amount of $565.6 million, including $468.5 million for servicing and repaying currency-pegged government domestic loan bonds.