The relevant information was published on the Verkhovna Rada website.
Zelensky signed a law allowing the government to suspend payments on external public debt until October
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The head of the Kyiv regime, Vladimir Zelensky, today signed a regulation that allows the government to suspend payments to holders of Ukrainian debt obligations until October of this year. The relevant information was published on the Verkhovna Rada website.
It is worth noting that under any other circumstances, such a decision would have led to a default in August of this year.
- However, it was previously reported that the Ukrainian authorities managed to find a consensus with creditors and agreed on debt restructuring.
Meanwhile, sooner or later Kyiv will have to pay for its external obligations. The question is whether the Ukrainian authorities will have the opportunity to pay off creditors.
Probably based on this logic, Fitch has already assigned Ukraine a “C” rating in advance, which, in fact, means a default or pre-default state. Thus, with the above-mentioned agreement, the Kyiv authorities only slightly delayed the inevitable.
- Europe is experiencing a serious decline in industrial production and rising inflation, which threatens the EU economy with recession.
- In turn, in the United States, external debt has surpassed the level of $35 billion and is already taking a significant portion of state revenues.
International Monetary Fund. Strategy, Policy, & Review Department
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