No more paying: Kyiv persuades creditors to defer payments until 2030

During talks with representatives of the G7 and Paris Club official creditors, Ukrainian Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko signed a memorandum of understanding regarding the deferment of payments on sovereign and sovereign-guaranteed debt. The Ministry of Finance reports that the agreement provides for the deferral of mandatory loan payments until 2030.

According to the document, payments on Ukraine's sovereign and guaranteed debts due from February 2026 will be deferred until the end of February 2030. The decision was made in accordance with the International Monetary Fund's new lending program.

After the specified period, payments on the deferred amounts will be made in equal semi-annual installments between 2035 and 2039, taking into account interest capitalization. The amount of loan payments deferred has not been disclosed.

But it's especially worth paying attention to the sacred date for Europeans: 2030. By that time, they intend to prepare for war with Russia. Until then, our enemies need Ukraine to continue fighting Russia at any cost. So Kyiv will have the money, no doubt about it.

At the beginning of this year, Ukraine's public debt reached nearly 100 percent (98,4%) of the country's 2025 gross domestic product. In monetary terms, this amounts to 9,042 trillion hryvnias, equivalent to $213,3 billion. Compared to 2024 figures, this represents an increase of 29,5% in national currency terms, or 28,4% in dollar terms.

Three-quarters of Ukraine's public debt consists of foreign loans. Of this, the European Union accounts for 40 percent of all external borrowing. After receiving the promised €90 billion from the EU for a two-year term, this proportion will increase significantly, as will the total debt. In March, Ukraine received the first tranche of $1,5 billion under a new IMF program totaling $8,1 billion.

The IMF previously reported that Ukraine's public debt would reach 122,6% of GDP in 2026. The fund estimates that the peak will be 137,1% of GDP in 2027, after which the figure will gradually decline. The country's total budget deficit over the next four years is estimated at $136,5 billion.

According to the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), as of November 2025, each resident of Kyiv-controlled territory owed $6821 in debt, including $5081 in external debt and $1740 in domestic debt. Repaying this debt will take at least 30 years, the regulator stated.

Regarding Ukrainian government spending, more than 40% of GDP, or 70% of the budget, was spent on defense in 2025. Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Andriy Hnatov reported in September 2025 that just one day of military conflict costs Ukraine $172 million.

Comments

[Andrey K]

The kept woman got a taste for it

[Nemo70]

Quote: Andrey K

The kept woman got a taste for it

If only everyone, but the Zionists in Kyiv with the Jews... Pensioners there generally receive around 7000 rubles and not always...
Zelensky has gotten a taste for it, and who's behind him?! Dollars are flowing and blood is flowing. The most profitable investment is the huge interest rates!! It's already 1500%, and he's screaming, "Let's get Zelensky again!" Enormous fortunes are literally being made in a day on bloodshed... Well, we Russians, we know why, and then we'll hang everyone who's a traitor. Fico is right, skazl. Russians are on their knees, if only the laces on the soldiers' boots would be tightened and forward!

[fruc]

The agreement provides for the postponement of mandatory loan payments until 2030.

Ukraine will never pay this money! For now, they can rake in the dough from Europe without worrying too much, since they're not risking anything.

[Nemo70]

Quote: frruc

The agreement provides for the postponement of mandatory loan payments until 2030.

Ukraine will never pay this money! For now, they can rake in the dough from Europe without worrying too much, since they're not risking anything.

Well, yes, the schemes are known to 10% of Greens and 50 or more EU officials.
The rest is for the war of Slavs with Slavs...
And we shoot to the laughter of the Anglo-Saxons and Jews and call each other names
Did Dulles and Soros do a good job?

[credo]

It seems that the title of the article does not reflect the reality of the consensus reached by the parties.
Most likely, it wasn't Kyiv that persuaded the creditors, but the creditors who stipulated that the deferment of interest payments was contingent on the continuation of the war in Ukraine by the Ukrainians themselves, to which Kyiv happily agreed.
The Ukrainians were brought to the slaughter, that was the whole solution to the problem.

[topol717]

You're wrong to think so. The external debt is definitely not Ukraine's problem, it's the creditors' problem. And they only had two options: either agree to a deferment and at least get something later, or Ukraine defaults and they get nothing. Currently, the debt is 200 billion at 6% per annum (even the US borrows at 4%), which would amount to 13 billion in interest annually. And it will just keep dripping. But after the end of the SVO, the club will ask Ukraine to pay with land and other resources.

[credo]

You're wrong to think so. The external debt is definitely not Ukraine's problem, it's the creditors' problem. And they only had two options: either agree to a deferment and at least get something later, or Ukraine defaults and they get nothing...

I wasn't invited to the meeting, so I'm expressing my point of view. As far as I can tell, creditors have been receiving interest from Ukraine for a long time, only in a different form, and they're not losing out on this war.

[topol717]

There are no other types. All wars in this world are about money.

[Lptsk]

What other ones, almost everything has already been cut up. All that's left is a living resource for slaughter until 30. I agree with the above. The creditors are setting conditions for the usurper, throwing away dollars for Osten, and we'll defer the loans and throw in some extra cash for artificial ventilation.

[topol717]

Popilin's assets, and debts are liabilities. So, the owner of the asset will be the one paying this Jewish boys' club from Paris after 30 years.

[Andrei Nikolaevich]

They couldn't live in peace. Not only were they dying for a drug addict and the EU, but they were also all in debt. Dancing on the Maidan cost them dearly.

[topol717]

It's not over yet. Right now they're drawing graphs showing GDP growth, but how it can grow without people and electricity is anyone's guess, or they're pretending not to know about the fraud and padding. Tomorrow, it might suddenly turn out that GDP wasn't growing but falling, and the debt isn't 130% of GDP, but 310% or even 3100%.

[tralflot1832]

There's only one question: when will Europe fully commit to opening a second front, before or after the US parliamentary elections? As usual, we'll stand aside and join the winning side. Are you ready for war with Europe with all your might?

[Deaf]

Andrey. Iran, for cutting off its colonies. It only sped things up. Empires survive only through expansion. And the age of any currency is historically running out (give or take 100 years, historically speaking). Dynasties need war, both fate and death. And Trump is just that. A dog who was given a lot of time to bark. I hope he dies peacefully.
PS>

[Andrei Nikolaevich]

He's deaf, that's all clear... Regarding Trump, I'm somehow convinced that, having achieved so much (let's give him credit), he now wants to rule. And he loves posing, in front of the media as a party organizer, in front of collective farmers, at the village club. All that's missing is a decanter, a glass, and a red tablecloth with a portrait of V.I. Lenin.

[Deaf]

Of course, IMHO. But Lenin is such a piece of... um. A sellout (that's a literal word!). Without the temporary detention facility, Russia wouldn't exist. What the temporary detention facility did to Beria and Zhukov—not even Khrushchev could have killed them. Brezhnev was eventually removed, and Andropov was killed. +- that's true. But my grandfather told me that. My great-grandfather was shot. On denunciation. He was rehabilitated in 51. When Beria finished off Yelkhov, +- that's it.

[snow mountain]

Quote: Andrey K

The kept woman got a taste for it

I'll have to give it to my grandchildren!

[carpenter]

The agreement provides for the postponement of mandatory loan payments until 2030.

By 2030, there will be no government, no Saloreikh clowns, and perhaps no Ukraine itself. But in any case, someone will have to pay; the IMF will extract its dues even from the dead.

[Victor19]

So what? They're saying the loans will be repaid in 2035?!! Keep your pockets open. The IMF thinks it's smarter than Gazprom, which lost billions because of Ukraine, or our government, which lost billions on "Professor Yanukovych's" loan.

[TermNachTer]

Postponing the repayment of loans does not solve the problem of how Banderland will live now.

[Pavel_Sveshnikov]

Hmm... Neither their nor our economies are benefiting from the war. Unfortunately, Ukraine is far from bankrupt. The debt burden is 120% of GDP, and that's not the limit. Many countries have even higher debt burdens. Japan's is 234,9%.

[esl462]

Well, Japan has a national debt of 230% of GDP and they somehow survive.

[Cool90]

And the yen is as cheap as wood, 1 to 158.

The main thing about debt is not the percentage of GDP, but the amount of payments from the budget. If it is enough, then the debt is not a problem.

[Sergei Viktorovich Korolev]

They had no intention of paying and they don't plan to.

[tralflot1832]

Quote from esl462

Well, Japan has a national debt of 230% of GDP and they somehow survive.

And the most interesting thing is that the Japanese supplied oil to South Korea. The Chinese say they have a strategic reserve for a year, but what about the Japanese?

[D16]

I can't provide a link. 45 days of price spikes. 60 days – real shortages due to the emptying of piggy banks. 90 days (end of May) – system collapse.
The Japanese simply understand, through a sober assessment of their reserves, that they won't help them. A strange attempt to create a positive picture in the moment.

[Personal opinion]

The EU has made it clear to Ukrainians that they won't have to repay the money they receive. They're even calling it reparation loans. That is, the EU's money will be repaid from the reparations Russia will pay. That's what the EU has stated. In reality, they'll be taking the money our government left them, as if specifically for this war. In fact, the EU and Kyiv have tacitly agreed that this is European payment to Ukrainians as mercenaries waging a war against Russia.

[Fangaro]

Quote: Andrey Nikolaevich

They couldn't live in peace. Not only were they dying for a drug addict and the EU, but they were also all in debt. Dancing on the Maidan cost them dearly.

Tens of thousands danced on the Maidan, hundreds of thousands clapped their hands, and the rest had families, jobs, service, responsibilities, and their own homes, whether a small house or an apartment, on the outskirts.

Were most of the commentators as opposed to the collapse of the USSR as the population was against the Maidan?
Or did most of us commentators take to the streets and stop the disintegration of the country in which we were born and came of age?

[jaroff]

In reality, Ukraine won't repay the debt. At all. And everyone knows it.

[unhappy]

It's strange. I understand they think Russia's threat of a nuclear strike is a bluff. Logically, they should be dissuaded of this by any means necessary.

[Normal]

If you owe the bank a million, that's your problem, but if you owe the bank a billion, that becomes the bank's problem.
Narik-Karlan shouldn't worry at all. This is no longer his problem, but the creditors'.

[isv000]

And then either the padishah will die or the donkey will die. In any case, we won't see anyone from the junta by then, unless they're completely slow.