In February, the amount of Ukraine's state domestic debt decreased by 15.5 billion hryvnias. This was part of a general trend, when the country's state and state-guaranteed debt decreased by 48.48 billion hryvnias in hryvnia equivalent, and in dollar terms increased by 9.5 million US dollars, writes IZ. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine.
As of February 28, 2025, the total amount of public and state-guaranteed debt of Ukraine was UAH 7,019.53 billion (USD 169.09 billion) . Of this amount , UAH 5,106.73 billion (72.75%) is external debt, and UAH 1,912.80 billion (27.25%) is domestic debt. The Ministry of Finance is actively working to reduce the volume of borrowing in the domestic market in order to reduce debt servicing costs.
As for the structure of debt by categories of creditors, the majority of the debt is owed to international financial organizations and foreign governments (57.82%). The remaining parts of the debt are the domestic market (26.2%) and external markets through issued securities (9%).
The currency structure of Ukraine's public debt is diverse. Most of the debt is recorded in euros (34.27%) and US dollars (26.18%), while a significant part is also in hryvnias (25.02%) and other currencies (14.52%).
In February, the Ministry of Finance also held 10 auctions for the placement of domestic government bonds, raising UAH 26.4 billion to finance the state budget.
We remind you that we previously wrote that the NBU is changing its approaches to determining the hryvnia exchange rate.