Investors fled Ukraine amid news of a coup d'etat and Russian invasion
The statement by the President of Ukraine about the impending coup d'etat, as well as the publication of news about an allegedly imminent attack by Russia in the Western media, led to investors abandoning Ukraine.
The head of the presidential faction “Servant of the People” in parliament, David Arakhamia, stated this on the ICTV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Arakhamia, all this could be the work of Russia, which works through influential media in the United States and Europe.
“When it was written on all the pages of the world’s publications that Russia could attack Ukraine in two or three days, and we tried precisely in order to maintain the investment climate and not scare off foreign investors - there have already been cases, we tried to calm and on these broadcasts I said that Russia could attack at any moment, our army and so on, we received criticism from the opposition that the whole world is talking, but you are silent, you are silent about this topic, it is impossible not to say this,” said Arahamia.
“A week later, when we already had the first, for a hundred million, refusals from the investment bank of China, then the Black Rock company refused investments in Ukraine for 150 million, and so on, they told us: “Why are you saying this, you’re scaring investors.” . Let us then decide - we definitely need to minimize these processes, but if something happens, we need to announce it and talk about it, it needs to be checked. And this is the work of the relevant intelligence services,” the politician added.
The New York Times publishes this headline and then publishes a photograph of a flaming plane from the front. And the headline: “Ukraine receives another tranche from the IMF.” So what do we have? This is a hybrid component of the war, and now the Russian Federation is very active in the media in Europe and the United States in trying to create these pre-panic states in order to distract investors from investing in Ukraine in the first place,” Arakhamia said.
And according to Verkhovna Rada deputy Vadim Ivchenko, today Ukraine receives five times less investment than it did in the difficult 90s
“The question is not whether the president said something at the right time or at the wrong time. The question is that there is a head of state, the President of Ukraine, who should radiate stability, hope and say only those things that have been verified. Investors who are circling around Ukraine today receive information from here - from the Washington Post, from diplomatic trade missions and so on... But Ukraine today is depleted of investments; we have five times less investment than in the 90s,” says the deputy.
“We had one period – 2008 – 2010, when we had half as much investment as in the same 90s. We are putting this system together bit by bit, because today the war and the occupation of Crimea do not allow investors to quickly enter Ukraine; they look at any messages that come from both the international media and Ukraine,” Ivchenko concluded.
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