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The National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) has banned the country’s financial institutions from conducting cash operations, including currency exchange operations, with the banknotes and coins of the Russian Central Bank with images of objects located in the Russian-occupied territory of Ukraine, the NBU has reported on its website.

According to NBU resolution No. 103 of Oct. 13, the ban also applies to transactions that are made when buying or selling cash foreign currency between banks.