Kolomoisky intends to complete the idea of default
Oligarch Igor Kolomoisky, who has returned to Ukraine, plans to become the most influential political player in the country, for which he proposes to declare a default.
Izvestia writes about this, noting that Ukraine’s default will inevitably be accompanied by a crisis, during which the country will lose all external sources of lending and anyone who has free money will become the most influential player in the country.
“Kolomoisky has free funds. Before President Petro Poroshenko’s team nationalized Privatbank, which belonged to the oligarch, information appeared that the financial institution had managed to withdraw about $2 billion abroad, registered as advance payments for imports. It's time to convert this money into power. There is one caveat - for this, everyone else must be left without money,” the newspaper writes.
It is also indicated that it is too early to put an end to history, despite the categorical dissociation of the presidential administration from the proposal to declare a default.
“Kolomoisky is famous for trying to push his ideas to the end - but here the idea is expressed as publicly and directly as possible. And besides, the country does not have a margin of safety - and any period of political turbulence may end with a default from a hypothetical idea becoming a completely real scenario.
You also need to understand that de facto Ukraine is already in a state of default, it’s just that Kyiv and the West prefer not to notice this: the country’s authorities have already once refused to pay $3 billion in debt obligations to Russia. Now, four years later, the oligarch offers the president to refuse to pay other creditors too. It couldn’t have been any other way,” the publication sums up.
As PolitNavigator reported, Kolomoisky in an interview with the Financial Times called on President Zelensky to declare a default on the obligations of Ukraine.
Also oligarch called for a smaller new president listen to the West so as not to end up like Poroshenko.
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