KYIV, Oct 2 – The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) was, is and will remain independent, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in a course of a meeting with the central bank's staff at their premises, the NBU wrote on Facebook.

"The National Bank of Ukraine was, is and will be independent – we stand for this," the president told the bank's staff during the meeting also attended by Ukrainian Premier Oleksiy Honcharuk, financial and economic block of the government.