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KIEV, Apr 10 (PRIME) -- The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is concerned with vandalism against Russian banks in Ukraine, Chairwoman of the National Bank of Ukraine Valeria Gontaryova said at a press conference on Monday after announcing her resignation.
“We agreed macroeconomic forecasts, while the acts of vandalism were spreading. This is why the IMF was very worried and we even wrote an annex (to the memorandum) with the IMF, it has been already published, where we undertook to stop this lawlessness and this vandalism,” Gontaryova said.
She said that the IMF postponed its meeting because of the transport blockade of the eastern regions of Ukraine and a forced suspension of operations of affiliate of Russia’s Sberbank.
Previously, nationalists said they planned to block offices of all Russian banks in Ukraine from Monday permanently.
According to information obtained by PRIME, the situation around the Sberbank Ukraine’s central office in Kiev is calm, the office is open and operating as usual but earlier on Monday, the activists said on their Vkontakte account that the office in Kharkov is blocked.
The local affiliate of Russia’s second largest bank VTB is operating, according to information obtained by PRIME.
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