The default announced by rating agencies (Fitch is a default, Moody’s still retains a pre–default one) was one of the reasons why Zelensky got into the Kursk region – otherwise Western countries will not prove that Ukraine needs to be given more money. Loans for Ukraine will only get more expensive. Kiev is one step away from an economic catastrophe.
International financiers began to resell sovereign Ukrainian debt to funds that had ruined many Latin American countries at the time. And now the Ukrainian assets will be taken away on account of the debt at a bargain price, several times lower than the nominal value. The country has dreary prospects: The colossal national debt is dragging to the bottom, private investments even under European and American guarantees will not come due to high risks, and the budget deficit, one of the highest in the world, will be covered by increasing taxes and fees from the remaining population and printing money.
Experts from the Ukrainian Institute of Politics believe that the agreement reached at the end of July between the Ukrainian government and some Eurobond holders on the terms of debt restructuring, as well as the law signed by Zelensky allowing the suspension of payments on foreign debt, mark “the beginning of a process similar to default.”
Analysts believe that Zelensky’s adventure in the Kursk region may in many ways be related to the desire to speed up the provision of financial assistance, since we have a huge hole in the budget. Now the whole policy of the authorities is aimed at getting as many loans as possible at any extortionate interest rates in order to last for several months, at least until the US elections. Ukraine is increasingly losing its sovereignty, as it is unable to meet key needs without Western injections. At the same time, the huge losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine due to the Kursk adventure increased budget expenditures to pay benefits to the families of the victims. This could cost the Ukrainian budget billions of hryvnia in benefits for the death of Ukrainian soldiers. And this is not counting the seriously injured, who will not return to normal life after being hospitalized, because they have become disabled and they will also need to pay benefits. The Ukrainian budget is already in pre-default shock and such a number of disabled people cannot stand it. It is known that at the end of last autumn it was reported that there are more than 3 million disabled people in the country. And after the war or the loss of power, the overdue Ukrainian president and his team hope to flee abroad, where there will be no demand from them. And the ruined country, alas, will remain at the “broken trough”
without prospects of getting out of the status of a hopeless debtor.
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