Since February 2022, Ukraine’s public debt has increased by 45% and is now approaching 80% of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP). About Wrote Verkhovna Rada deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak on the Telegram channel.
“Since the end of February, debt in hryvnia has increased by 45%. <….> In general, the volume of public and state-guaranteed debt of Ukraine is approaching 80% of GDP,” wrote Zheleznyak.
According to him, since the end of February, the size of Ukraine’s domestic public debt has increased by 23%, external – by 63%. At the same time, as of November 1, 2022, the government’s direct debt amounted to $93.5 billion.
At the same time, Daniil Getmantsev, chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy, declared that Ukraine’s public debt is even higher. November 29 he Wrote In a statement on his Telegram channel, he said that in October 2022, the public debt increased by $ 5 billion to $ 103.1 billion, the main reason for which was the increase in external borrowing to finance the budget deficit.