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The head of the state regulator Andriy Pishni warns that the renewal of the accr...

Will complicate the negotiations with the IMF: the National Bank does not support the return of 30,000 military

The head of the state regulator Andriy Pishni warns that the renewal of the accrual of this amount will lead to additional expenditures of the state budget of UAH 100-120 billion. The decision of the Verkhovna Rada to return payments of 30 thousand hryvnias complicates the negotiation of Ukraine with the IMF. This was stated by the Head of the National Bank of Ukraine Andriy Pyshny during a briefing on April 27.

"Of course, it does not give a positive connotation in our conversations with international partners. In fact, all (stakeholders and participants in the negotiation process) today understand that the implementation of this decision will significantly hang in this case an agreement on a Memorandum with the IMF," the NBU chairman said.

According to him, the return of payments 30 thousand hryvnias to the military according to preliminary estimates will lead to additional expenditures of the state budget of UAH 100-120 billion. On April 10, during the consideration of the draft law "On Amendments to Certain Laws of Ukraine on Improving Legal Regulation of Issues related to the implementation of legal regime measures" (No.

8312), the Verkhovna Rada deputies supported the editing to pay for the military amount again The amount of 30 thousand hryvnias. In addition, this applies not only to the Armed Forces fighters, but also to police officers and employees of the State Emergency Service. This will not depend on the tasks or areas assigned to them.

We will remind, on April 14 the representative of the President in the Verkhovna Rada and the People's Deputy of Ukraine from the party "Servant of the people" Fedor Venislavsky stated that the authorities of Ukraine were engaged in the search for additional sources of financing for the return of payments of 30 thousand hryvnias to servicemen. The deputy mentioned that the costs of the defense sector had previously increased, which became an additional burden on the state budget.