Ukrainians in March 2016 sold to banks $259.8 million more foreign currency than bought, according to the website of the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU).

According to the regulator, this is $113.2 million, or 77.2% more than in the previous month.

The volume of foreign currency sales by the public in March increased by 61.15%, to $299.6 million, purchases by 1.3%, to $39.8 million.

As reported, for the first two months of 2016 the population sold to banks $261 million more foreign currency than bought.

As a whole for 2015 Ukrainians sold to banks $1.55 billion more foreign currency than bought, while in the previous year the volume of forex purchases $2.41 billion exceeded its sales: a total of $5.61 billion was sold and $8.02 billion was bought.