“Volodymyr Zelenskiy was swept into office on a big tide of protest votes, but getting anything positive done will be infinitely harder,” Thomas De Waal, senior fellow at Carnegie Europe, believes. And further cooperation with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will be central, he told DW.
So when a major Ukraine oligarch close to the president talks of defaulting on the country’s debt, alarm bells start ringing in at IMF headquarters in New York.
