“According to the government, last year the state budget of Ukraine received 42.6 billion dollars of external financing”, — write: www.radiosvoboda.org
“We are actively working to attract these funds from various sources. We continue our program with the IMF. We continue the program with the EU Ukraine Facility. We continue to work with all our key partners to have the necessary resources,” he said during the government meeting.
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But, according to him, in order to fully close the entire budget deficit, it is necessary to use Russian assets frozen in the West, therefore one of the main tasks now is to agree on a mechanism by which Ukraine will be able to receive 50 billion dollars by the end of the year.
“We are actively moving this process forward. There is a political decision of the G7 countries. Today, during a meeting in Kyiv with the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, we will discuss the details of how we can speed up the necessary decisions. We are waiting for positive news in this direction,” he said.
The Prime Minister reminded that last week the government approved the draft state budget for 2025, today this document was presented in the Verkhovna Rada.
According to the government, in 2023, the state budget of Ukraine received 42.6 billion dollars of external financing.