KYIV, Feb 22 - The share of non-performing loans (NPL) in the total volume of loans in Ukraine as of late December 2017 was 55.75% compared with 56.4% as of late September and 57.7% as of late June, according to a survey of the National Bank of Ukraine published Wednesday.

"New lending allowed all groups of banks, except for PrivatBank, to improve the quality of the loan portfolio due to statistical effects... Without taking into account state-owned banks and banks with state-owned Russian capital, their share [NPL] was 28.4%," the NBU said.