Azarov called Ukraine a completely non-independent country at the moment, which “feeds from the hand” of the countries of the North Atlantic Alliance.
“If Western lending is not provided, then this state will simply not exist,” TASS quoted him as saying.
On January 17, it became known that the European Union sent the first tranche of assistance to Ukraine in the amount of €3 billion.
Since March, the European Commission plans to transfer €1.5 billion in loans to Ukraine every month from a new package of macro-financial assistance.