{"id":151407,"date":"2026-04-02T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/?post_type=news&#038;p=151407"},"modified":"2026-03-31T19:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T16:28:09","slug":"derzhavnyj-borg-ukrayiny-u-lyutomu-skorotyvsya-na-18-mlrd","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/news\/novosti\/derzhavnyj-borg-ukrayiny-u-lyutomu-skorotyvsya-na-18-mlrd\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s public debt decreased by $1.8 billion in February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"62\" data-end=\"250\">As of the end of February, Ukraine\u2019s total public and publicly guaranteed debt amounted to $213.18 billion, decreasing by $1.8 billion over the month, according to the Ministry of Finance.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"252\" data-end=\"419\">\u201cIn February 2026, Ukraine\u2019s public and publicly guaranteed debt decreased by UAH 1.41 billion, while in dollar terms it declined by $1.8 billion,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"421\" data-end=\"680\">As of February 28, external public debt stood at UAH 6.93 trillion (75.25%), or $160.41 billion; domestic public debt amounted to UAH 2.009 trillion (21.82%), or $46.1 billion; and publicly guaranteed debt totaled UAH 270.55 billion (2.94%), or $6.26 billion.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"682\" data-end=\"1024\">It is noted that concessional loans from international financial organizations and foreign governments dominate the debt structure, accounting for 65.6%. Government securities placed on the domestic market make up 21.8%, on the external market \u2014 9.2%, while loans from commercial banks and other financial institutions account for about 3.4%.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1026\" data-end=\"1166\">As of February 28, the weighted average interest rate on public debt was 4.53%, compared to 4.51% in January 2026 and 6.2% in February 2025.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1168\" data-end=\"1479\">At the same time, the weighted average maturity stood at 13.23 years, compared to 13.39 years in January 2026 and 11.7 years in February 2025. Thus, on a year-on-year basis, the debt portfolio has become cheaper and longer in maturity, reducing servicing costs and lowering refinancing risks in the medium term.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1481\" data-end=\"1808\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">In the currency structure of public and publicly guaranteed debt, the largest share is denominated in euros (44.9%), followed by the US dollar (22.5%) and the hryvnia (20.1%). Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) account for 8.5%, while other currencies \u2014 including the British pound, Canadian dollar, and Japanese yen \u2014 make up 3.1%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":151408,"menu_order":0,"template":"","newscat":[9],"newstag":[],"issues":[],"class_list":["post-151407","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","newscat-novosti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/151407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"newscat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newscat?post=151407"},{"taxonomy":"newstag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newstag?post=151407"},{"taxonomy":"issues","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issues?post=151407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}