Otherwise, the threat of default on the debts to the International Monetary Fund and the West increases dramatically in a year. This was warned by a high-ranking source at the IMF. According to him, the jump in payments for new loans from the fund, the European Union, America is expected in 2019. And "if there is no new program," it is possible that Ukraine will not pay off its debts, explained the source. Duty to Russia will not prevent Ukraine from registering a new program. At the same time, the International Monetary Fund "formally calls for debt settlement within the current program," the source noted.. According to the four-year program of financial assistance to the IMF, Ukraine should be allocated $ 17.5 billion. The first tranche - $ 5 billion - was transferred in March 2015. , the second - $ 1.7 billion - in August of the same year.

The third tranche of the loan - $ 1 billion - the fund transferred to Kiev in September 2016. Earlier one of the mass media, based on the data of the press service of the National Bank, reported that for the year Ukraine paid the IMF more money than it received. The last payment for this year - $ 169 million - Kiev transferred to the fund. The total amount paid by Ukraine to the IMF for the year reached $ 1.268 billion. And received from him only one tranche - $ 1 billion - back in April.