Kyiv has reduced requests for financial assistance from the West from $41 billion to $37.3 billion

2023-12-20T10:09:51.029Z

Highlights: Kyiv has reduced requests for financial assistance from the West from $41 billion to $37.3 billion. It is specified that the need for external financing of the country next year will reach $37 billion. Earlier, the Minister for Strategic Industries of Ukraine, Oleksandr Kamyshin, admitted that Kiev can pay only half of the capabilities of the military-industrial complex. He added that all capital expenditures of the state budget were also reduced. The measures were taken to maximize state budget revenues, activate the domestic borrowing market and other measures.

The Ukrainian government has decided to reduce its requests for funding from the West in 2024 from $41 billion to more than $37 billion, the Ukrainian Finance Ministry said in a statement.