Blog #Economy

In the near future, Ukraine may become even poorer. The reason is that Ukraine’s payments on loans from the International Monetary Fund for the first time approached a billion dollars. In September, Ukraine paid the IMF more than $ 882 million — and this is an absolute record for the last eight years

Ukraine is clinging to a financial lifeline via tens of billions of dollars in aid from the US and European Union, with substantially more needed for postwar reconstruction. A failure to more systematically root out graft would endanger that.

The United States has two goals in the Ukrainian conflict — Russia and the European Union.