Contents tagged with Yakiv Smolii

  • Kyiv: Ukraine has to pay 12 billion dollars to foreign lenders

    The Head of the National Bank, Yakiv Smolii stated in an interview with Vox Ukraine that the Ukrainian government will have to pay about $12 billions dollars to foreign lenders in 2019-2020.

    "In 2019-2020, Ukraine must repay about $12 billion of foreign debt, including interest payments. And without the IMF program, we do not have access to other funding channels: funds from the European Union, the World Bank. Therefore, the proposal to sign a new program with the IMF is reasonable," said …