Canada will provide additional financial assistance to Ukraine in the amount of 200 million canadian dollars (160 million dollars), said on Wednesday.

the appeal noted that the loan is allocated to Kiev on preferential terms and is intended to stabilize the economic and social situation in Ukraine. In September, Canada had given Ukraine a concessional loan of the same size.

Ukraine is in a difficult political crisis, which affects its economy and the public sector, in fact the country is on the verge of default. The authorities want to improve the situation of foreign borrowing. The IMF has opened for Ukraine's two-year loan program 17, $ 1 billion. Of this amount, 4, 6 billion Kyiv received in 2014, the remaining funds must be allocated in 2015. Send Kiev was also provided by the world Bank, the EBRD, the European investment Bank and some countries.

in General in 2014, Ukraine received financial assistance amounting to about 9 billion dollars. The total state dog for eleven months was 69, 3 billion dollars.

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