Russia's foreign exchange reserves as of October 1 amounted to $540.69 billion, having decreased by $24.97 billion or 4.4% over the month. According to the data on the official website of the Bank of Russia, since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, they have fallen by $102.5 billion (from $643.2 billion as of February 18), Censor.ua writes.
International (gold and currency) reserves of the Russian Federation consist of funds in foreign currency, special borrowing rights of the International Monetary Fund, a reserve position in the IMF and monetary gold.
As reported, after the start of Russia's full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, the Western countries froze about half of the gold and foreign exchange reserves of the Russian Central Bank for a total amount of about $300 billion.
At the same time, before the start of the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine, a record amount of Russian reserves was recorded for the entire history - $643.2 billion as of February 18, 2022. By the end of May, Russia's currency reserves decreased by $60 billion.
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