Minister: Ukraine receives $27 billion aid internationally

Ukrainian Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko said that Kiev had received from the partners an international financial assistance of $27 billion.

The minister added that Ukraine expects to receive another $3 billion by the end of the year, Gazeta.ru reports.

"By the end of the year we expect to get up to 30 billion in addition in total," the minister said, noting that partly the country was helped by partners, partly by domestic loans.

Ukraine's needs, according to his estimate, for the ten months of the conflict amounted to $50 billion.