Ukraine made its $75 million coupon payment to Russia — Russian Finance Ministry

2015/06/22

MOSCOW, June 22. /TASS/. Ukraine has carried out coupon payment of $ 75 million on $ 3 billion Eurobonds, the Head of the Debt and State Financial Assets Department of the Finance Ministry Konstantin Vyshkovsky told TASS on Monday.

"Yes, everything is fine. I confirm that the payment has been made," he said.

The coupon was made on $3 billion Eurobonds which Russia bought from Viktor Yanukovych’s government in December 2013.

According to Ukraine’s Finance Ministry, Kiev has been in talks with international creditors since March on restructuring part of the debt worth around $23 billion, while total debt is worth around $70 billion. The package of financial aid to Ukraine for the next four years constitutes $40 billion. From the beginning of 2015, Ukraine received $6 billion from international creditors in financial assistance, in 2014 - around $9 billion. Ukraine plans to save around $15.3 billion on debt payments.



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