When it comes to fighting the economic battle over Ukraine, the West has been much more willing to hit Russia in its pocketbook than play sugar daddy to Kiev.
The International Monetary Fund, after hinting in September that Ukraine would come up short, officially sounded the alarm this week, acknowledging that Kiev’s coffers face a $15 billion shortfall. That’s over and above the $17 billion package the IMF put together for Ukraine last spring.
The IMF is not willing to plug the gap alone. Fund officials are still in Ukraine, training their green eyeshades on Kiev’s books, but spokesman William Murray said …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
