Kyiv, 7 En. (DPA/EP) –
The Ukrainian Government has reported this Saturday the total balance of international contributions in aid and loans so far this year, which total more than 32,000 million dollars (about 30,000 million euros).
About 40 percent of these funds come from the United States, just under 25 percent from the European Union and 8 percent from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), according to data from the Ukrainian central bank, the National Bank of Ukraine. .
These aids and loans account for about 16 percent of Ukraine’s GDP before the Russian invasion on February 24. This year Ukrainian GDP has plunged by more than 30 percent, according to estimates by the Ukrainian Ministry of Economy.
Russia occupies about 18 percent of Ukraine’s territory: the Crimean peninsula — annexed by Moscow in 2014 — and much of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
