The Finance Ministry of Ukraine plans in addition to already received 4, 5 billion dollars to raise up to the end of the year borrowing another $ 3 billion, said the Deputy Minister Artem Shevelev.
"in numbers, it more than $ 3 billion, which we will extend to the end of the current year," he said, noting that for the period from January this year, Ukraine has already received in the General Fund of the state budget borrowing at 4, 5 billion dollars.
Present at the meeting of the Collegium of the Minister of Finance Natalia Jaresko said that in practice all of these funds were used to repay old debts." the overwhelming majority of these funds went to pay foreign debts, " said she, UNIAN reports. Similarly, in the Ministry have noticed that the amount of public and publicly guaranteed debt of Ukraine decreased." currently have 68 billion US dollars, and had (a year ago) ? 73 billion dollars ", - said the Director of the Department for debt and international financial policy of the Ministry of Finance Galina Pahachuk. Remember, on 22 July, the European Commission has listed Ukraine 600 million in the first tranche in the framework of the new programme of macro-financial assistance to Ukraine for a total volume of 1, 8 billion euros. On 6 July, the leader of the public movement "Ukrainian choice" Viktor Medvedchuk said that the efforts of " professional Russian and foreign reformers-integration of the Ukraine brought to the pre-default wealth. 30 June The Economist has described Ukraine as the worst economy in the world. This verdict was made after comparison of countries by GDP growth. According to these data, since April of last year, the Ukrainian economy contracted by 6, 5%. 2nd place went to Libya with a decrease of 6, 4% 3-m ? Macau, which GDP dropped by 6%. In fourth place ? Equatorial Guinea with a decrease in GDP by 5, 5%. Fifth place was taken by Russia, whose economy in one year decreased by 4%. Ukraine is now in fact remains on the brink of default. From the report of the international monetary Fund that second banks of Ukraine for the risk of loan defaults after Nigeria.

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