Foreign aid is crucial for Ukraine as the financial pressure caused by the full-scale Russian invasion grows. Finance Minister Serhii Marchenko said previously that the country would need at least the same sum in 2024 as last year.
Since the beginning of the full-scale war, the Dutch government has provided the state budget of Ukraine with about €300 million. Source: the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine, following the results of an online meeting of Minister Serhii Marchenko with Steven van Weyenberg, the newly appointed Minister of Finance of the Netherlands Quote: "The €300 million of direct budget support attracted was a significant contribution to ensuring macro-financial stability in the face of uncertainty," Marchenko
The Ministry of Finance is waiting for proposals from the Ministry of Defence and the General Staff to cover the costs of additional mobilisation. Source: Minister Serhii Marchenko, during the Business Breakfast, the Forbes's YouTube project "I would allow the General Staff, together with the Ministry of Defence, to find approaches to this issue and propose their own solutions to optimisation of expenditures… Because I have already pointed out several times that we have exhausted our internal po
Ukraine has received US$1.34 billion as the sixth additional financing for partial compensation of Ukraine's state budget expenses not related to the security and defence sphere, in particular, for pensions and payments to Ukraine's State Emergency Service employees.
"Grant funding will support priority measures in the restoration of critical infrastructure damaged by Russian aggression, namely transport, communal facilities and services, social infrastructure, and residential areas," Finance Minister Serhii Marchenko commented.