Igor Kolomoisky continues to insist that Ukraine should default on the country’s external debt. The fact that the oligarch, who retains a decisive influence on Ukraine’s new president Volodymyr Zelenskiy, talks about default in interviews with Western media – most recently in an interview with the Financial Times – serves as a signal to Western financial circles.
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Vitaliy Portnikov: The tragic consequences of possible default in Ukraine
For the oligarchs, default would be beneficial and that is exactly why they needed a weak, incompetent, and controlled president on Bankova street, Vitaliy Portnikov writes.
