REUTERS
The public and state guaranteed debt of Ukraine amounted as of September 30, 2015, to $70.671 billion, up by 0.15%, or $109 million, as compared with the beginning of the month, reports the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine.
According to the ministry, the public debt and debt guaranteed by the state in the hryvnia equivalent grew by UAH 26.486 billion in September, or 1.77%, to UAH 1.521 trillion.
Since the beginning of the year the public debt in the hryvnia equivalent increased 38.2%, and was up 1.2% in dollar terms.
As UNIAN reported earlier, the total public and state guaranteed debt of Ukraine as of August 31, 2015, amounted to $70.562 billion, up by 1.07%, or $750 million, since year's start. The total amount of public and state guaranteed debt in the hryvnia equivalent increased in January-August by UAH 394.059 billion, or by 35.8%, to UAH 1.494 trillion.
In 2014, the public and state guaranteed debt shrank by 4.53% to $69.811 billion, but increased by 1.9 times in the hryvnia equivalent to UAH 1.101 trillion.