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\u201cWe have agreed on our needs: five billion dollars a month over the next three or four months. It is the funding necessary only for humanitarian and civil needs, not military ones \u00bb. Sergii Marchenko, Ukrainian finance minister, says this in an interview with Corriere, after attending the summit of the International Monetary Fund last week. He has a vital task for Ukraine: finding the resources for the country to survive and explaining to European governments how to weaken Russia by hitting gas and oil.<\/p>\n
“We are aiming for collective action by the G7 countries, the Monetary Fund, the World Bank,” he says. \u00abHaving direct transfers not to be repaid would be better, of course. But loans are also a possibility, we are looking for any way to cover our deficit. Italy was the first country to support us after the war began, with a donation of 110 million euros. In Washington last week I met Minister Daniele Franco and he told me that your government is discussing giving us another 200 million on loan \u00bb.<\/p>