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dipsydoodle

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2. The main issue in Ukraine is cash flow.

Reply to Fred Sanders (Original post)

Wed Feb 19, 2014, 11:26 AM

Feb 2014

The $15 billion on the table from Russia has yet to be matched by any others. Without that amount Ukraine would be skint by 2015 latest unable to buy imports and in default of bond repayments due meantime - their foreign reserves are already low. The gap would doubtless be filled by Goldman Sachs and Co secured against state assets and at high interest rates to match the risk in which Ukraine would in effect become foreign owned.

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