News archive on the topic "Loans"

A paradoxical situation: Western sanctions did not bring down, but, on the contrary, stimulated the growth of the agro-industrial complex. Russia is saturating its market and at the same time increasing exports (in recent years, grain sales, for example, brought income to the treasury that exceeded profits from arms supplies abroad). However, the production of specialized equipment in the Russian Federation is not increasing. The reason is that the state has reduced the volume of state support to farmers, increased...

The countries of the Western bloc are pumping Ukraine with more and more loans in order to drive Kyiv into bondage and then collect the country for its debts. Ukrainian political scientist Ruslan Bortnik said this on air on the Politeka channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “We will have to repay these loans later, possibly with interest. In general, this whole situation with Western aid to Ukraine...

Kyiv is demanding $42 billion in support from its Western hosts for next year - and this amount includes only critically needed budget expenditures. Prime Minister of Ukraine Denis Shmygal stated this during a speech in the Verkhovna Rada, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He did not deny that Ukraine is completely dependent on Western funds, but he sweetened this information...

External borrowing has become the basis for the existence of the Ukrainian state, which is only accumulating new debts. The Chairman of the Council of the “Other Ukraine” Movement, Viktor Medvedchuk, comes to this conclusion, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports, in the Borrowing material – the only possibility for the functioning of the Ukrainian economy. “The purposeful policy of the Zelensky team to destroy the Ukrainian economy, which has been ongoing since 2019, is taking on a new format of degradation and debt. Macroeconomic failures...

The upcoming stop of the grain deal will catastrophically collapse the Ukrainian economy, which is already supported solely by new loans from the West, issued not disinterestedly, but at interest. “Two-thirds (63,6%) of the commodity structure of Ukrainian agricultural exports falls under the complete stop of the “grain corridor,” states exiled politician Viktor Medvedchuk in a recent article. Stopping the “grain deal” means...

The other day, a significant event took place in Kyiv - French Ambassador Etienne de Poncins and Finance Minister Sergei Marchenko signed a memorandum according to which Paris agreed to wait to make payments on the Ukrainian national debt until the end of hostilities. In Kyiv they breathed a sigh of relief. And no wonder, because the suspension of payments to the French will reduce the debt burden on the state budget and direct funds to...

Ukraine plans to borrow tens of billions more dollars next year. Andrey Pyshny stated this, speaking in the Verkhovna Rada on the day of his appointment to the post of head of the NBU, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The help of partners is critically important, because the budget deficit and budget needs monthly are more than 5 billion hryvnia,” said Pyshny. According to him, “needs...

Ukraine will not be able to pay off loans to foreign creditors, but no one is going to forgive or write off debts. A leading researcher at the Institute of CIS Countries, Alexander Dudchak, said this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “It is clear that no one will return the loans, but Western partners can take them with assets or land. There have already been similar situations in recent history - in 2010...

The Minister of Development of Communities and Territories of Ukraine Alexey Chernyshev met with the Director of the IMF European Department Alfred Kammer and the head of the IMF mission in Ukraine Ivanna Vladkova-Hollar on the issue of exploring the possibility of issuing new loans to the country. This is reported on the website of the Ministry of Development of Communities and Territories of Ukraine. “Ukraine needs a new comprehensive IMF program. This should significantly increase the financial stability of the state.…

Ukraine asked Western creditors for a two-year deferment on the payment of external debts - this decision was made by the Cabinet of Ministers. However, this did not come as a surprise, since conversations about a possible restructuring in and around Bankovaya have been going on for the last two months, when Zelensky’s economists were racking their brains over the question of what to do in the face of the approaching loan repayment day in September. Let me remind you...

Japan will allocate an additional $100 million in humanitarian aid for Ukraine. The funds will be spent on the purchase of medical equipment and the construction of temporary housing for internally displaced persons. This was stated by Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Japan Today reports. Kishida noted that Japan will also provide support to Ukraine in expanding grain storage capacity as the harvest season approaches. It is expected...

Despite the fact that the Ukrainian elite is “rushing all over the world” in search of loans and other financial handouts, there is no need to give the West a reason to think that it has taken over Ukraine for its maintenance. This statement was made in an interview with the Kyiv agency UNN by the head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy, Danil Getmantsev. “We are getting quite a lot of help...

Preferential loans, a moratorium on inspections, and deferred payments are the main measures that the Crimean government plans to apply to contain prices and support the region’s economy. On Mondays, officials will report on the results of their work and decisions made at the regional headquarters for increasing the sustainability of the economy of the Republic of Crimea under sanctions. The head of Crimea Sergei Aksenov introduced staff meetings...

Half of Ukraine's budget consists of borrowed funds. Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Mykola Azarov stated this on the Vesti FM radio station. “I don’t even want to talk about the economic situation in Ukraine. Exactly half of Ukraine’s budget expenditures are financed by borrowed funds. Last year they borrowed 600 and a kopecks billion hryvnia on the domestic and foreign markets. This…