This year, Ukraine expects to issue $2.4 billion worth of Eurobonds, to receive $2.2 billion in IMF loans and to receive $1 billion in net new foreign investment in the government bond market

This year, Ukraine expects to issue $2.4 billion worth of Eurobonds, to receive $2.2 billion in IMF loans and to receive $1 billion in net new foreign investment in the government bond market, Kyrylo Shevchenko, governor of the National Bank of Ukraine, told Reuters Monday. He said talks with the IMF continue and that the Rada may need to pass draft laws as conditions for more loans. On foreign purchases of Ukrainian bonds, he said: “There is a new optimism in international markets…We hope that this optimism will not bypass Ukraine.”