Today, Russian stock indices collapsed amid reports of an escalation of the situation in the Donbass. Thus, the stock market of the Russian Federation fell by more than 8%, and the dollar exchange rate exceeded 78 rubles. This is reported on the website of the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Moscow Exchange index reached its lowest level since the end of 2020 (3103,34 points), and this is a key indicator of the state of the Russian stock market.
Shares of such giants as "Yandex", "Sberbank", "Lukoil", "Rosneft", "Gazprom", "Aeroflot" and many others fell in price.
Meanwhile, the hryvnia to dollar exchange rate in Kiev exchange offices on the morning of February 21 weakened by 13 kopecks to 28,63 hryvnias/dollar. Against the euro, the hryvnia weakened by 10 kopecks to UAH 32,50/euro.
Today, the NBU set the official exchange rate of the hryvnia to the dollar at the level of UAH 28,34/dollar. This is for 4 kopecks. less than the previous indicator.
