Russia hopes to receive 22 June 75 million payment from Ukraine for the loan, with Any fact of non-payment will be perceived by Russia as an " event of default ", said the Deputy Minister of Finance Sergey Storchak.
"The payment is likely to go on the first day of the week, June 22. Any default will constitute an event of default. This development is clearly not in the interests of Ukraine. For this reason I think that the Payment will come, "said Storchak in interview to television channel" Russia 1 ", the news Agency.
first on Thursday, the President's press Secretary Dmitry Peskov declared that the refusal of Ukraine from its debt obligations should not be discussed in the media, but on a bilateral basis with Russia. On may 19, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the law that will give the ability to suspend payments on restructured debt. The Russian President Vladimir Putin called the decision of Kiev weird. In his vision, the Declaration on the fact of default suggests a low level of professionalism. Also, according to Putin, Russian banks have loan portfolios to Ukraine in the amount of 24-25 billion. Prime Minister Medvedev D. A. Also explained the actions of the Rada. According to him, This decision is truly a Declaration of default at the same time with the Declaration of force majeure on debt. For its part, the Finance Minister of Russia Anton Siluanov said that Moscow will turn to international court if the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko will sign the law on the moratorium on the payment of foreign debts.

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