Ukraine's state debt down to $77 bln in April

The country's state debt in January-April 2018 grew by 1% in the dollar equivalent, at the same time declining by 5.6% in the hryvnia equivalent.

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Ukraine's state and publicly guaranteed debt in April 2018 declined in dollar equivalent by 0.32 billion, or 0.4%, to $77.05 billion as of April 30.

The debt in the hryvnia equivalent over the period under review decreased by UAH 32.62 billion, or 1.6%, to UAH 2.021 trillion, according to the Ukrainian Finance Ministry's website.

Read alsoPoroshenko: Ukraine repays over US$4 bln in debts this yearThe country's state debt in January-April 2018 grew by 1% in the dollar equivalent, at the same time declining by 5.6% in the hryvnia equivalent.

As UNIAN reported earlier, Ukraine's state and government-guaranteed debt in 2017 dropped to 71.8% of GDP from 80.9% in 2016.

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