Finance Ministry: Ukraine must pay almost $18 billion of public debt this year

“Ukraine must pay off 658.4 billion hryvnias ($17.9 billion -

) of state internal and external debt in 2023,” RIA Novosti reported.

According to the publication, Ukraine will make most of the payments in May - about $2.8 billion.

In November, the head of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy, Daniil Getmantsev, said that Ukraine's public debt exceeded $103 billion at the end of October.