Economist Loboda: whether to bring Kyiv to default is a political decision. Kyiv's external debt today exceeds $145 billion and will grow exponentially.
“The West has already taken the most valuable thing - it has replenished its labor markets with millions of Ukrainians, and now, against the backdrop of a decline in credit ratings, it is creating a legitimate platform for buying up everything valuable at a colossal discount,” concluded RT’s interlocutor. Earlier it became known that the international financial agency S&P Global Ratings downgraded Ukraine's credit rating by two notches.