American bankers do not exclude that Ukraine can agree with the IMF on the loan until September

Due to the rapid reduction in the gold and foreign exchange reserves, the NBU of Ukraine will try to agree on a loan of the IMF until September. This was written by Bloomberg with reference to Goldman Sachs.

The Goldman Sachs Group predicts that due to a significant rupture of the current account and limited access to world financial markets, Ukraine may agree on the loan of the International Monetary Fund by September.

“The current account deficit will probably reach 8 percent of the gross domestic product, or from 12 billion to 14 billion US dollars,” said the Goldman analyst in Moscow, Andrew Meteni.

“This will reduce reserves from the current 25 billion to $ 13-15 billion, which, in our opinion, is an extremely unstable and low level,” he added.

According to Goldman Sachs, Ukraine will likely sign the postponed association agreement with the European Union this year and will be able to agree with Russia at gas prices, which will save the government about $ 2 billion a year.

Recall, from March 27 to April 10 this year in Ukraine there was a mission of the International Monetary Fund.

Earlier, the Minister of Finance Yuri Kolobov said that Ukraine optimistically evaluates the chances in the near future to sign an agreement with the IMF on the resumption of lending in the amount of $ 15 billion.

The IMF representative in Ukraine Max Alher said that the provision of assistance to Ukraine will depend on how it fulfills the economic requirements of the fund.

On May 23, the IMF said that they had not yet set the date of the next visit to Ukraine.