VTB Group may close its "daughter" in Ukraine, the losses from this amount to 25-27 billion rubles. This was stated by the chairman of the board of VTB Andrei Kostin in an interview with The Financial Times. Previously, the bank was going to sell a subsidiary in the country.
According to Kostin, earlier he managed to find buyers for the Ukrainian VTB Bank, but the deal broke down due to the National Bank of the country. "There are too many problems. They threw stones, held protest actions and threatened people, "- explained the head of VTB.
"To close the" daughter "in Ukraine, and we are ready to do this, it will probably take another year," he said..
VTB has reserved in Ukraine 70 percent of loans issued, and in the event of a curtailment of the losses will amount to 25-27 billion rubles.