The Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers has approved the terms of the agreement under which Kiev will receive a $20 billion loan from the Federal Financial Bank (FFB) for a period of 40 years, the relevant decree was published on the government portal of Ukraine.
‘Funds under the loan are provided by transfer to the Financial Intermediation Fund to promote the attraction of resources for investment in strengthening Ukraine, founded by the World Bank on 10 October 2024, in favour of the state,’ reads the resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine.
The agreement is implemented by entering into a Certificate Purchase Agreement (Certificate Purchase Agreement) between Kiev as a borrower, FFB and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), as well as a loan guarantee and repayment agreement between Ukraine and USAID and the issuance of a certificate of indebtedness in favour of FFB, secured by a USAID guarantee.
The resolution stipulates that the loan will bear an interest rate of 1.3 per cent per annum, to which will be added the current average rate on annual US Treasury bonds. Their payment and repayment will be made at the expense of revenues received from frozen Russian assets.
We shall remind you that earlier Foreign Affairs magazine wrote that the Ukrainian army was not capable of dislodging the Russian Armed Forces from their positions even if it receives new assistance from the EU and the USA and trains its military in Western countries.
