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this year is around 30 years to full repayment. sergeii, you recently met with the boss of the imf, the international monetary fund, when she came to kyiv. you were looking to negotiate a big long—term loan. just how vital is that? what exactly do you want from them? why do we need imf support? because imf is an anchor for other donors in the west, in particular, for the united states, for the eu, for bilateral credit, etc. when the imf stepped in, they can easily trust their finances towards ukraine. they can easily provide support. that's why the imf is necessary, as a background in which we can settle all of the negotiations and attract additional financing to cover our budget need. big financial support from the likes of the imf normally comes with strings attached. there is no such thing as a free lunch. we are talking reforms
borrows from their risk as well as money with a long term maturity. as last year it was 15 plus. this year is around 30 years to full repayment. sergeii, you recently met with the boss of the imf, the international monetary fund, when she came to kyiv. you were looking to negotiate a big long term loan. just how vital is that? what exactly do you want from them? why do we need imf support? because imf is an anchor for other donors in the west, in particular, for the united states, for the eu, for bilateral credit, etc. when imf stepped in, they can easily trust their finances towards ukraine. they can easily provide support. that's why imf is necessary, as a background in which we can settle all of the negotiations and attract additional financing to cover
as last year it was 15 plus. this year is around 30 years to full repayment. sergeii, you recently met with the boss of the imf, the international monetary fund, when she came to kyiv. you were looking to negotiate a big long term loan. just how vital is that? what exactly do you want from them? why do you need imf support? because imf is an anchor for other donors in the west in particular, for the united states, for the eu, for bilateral credit, etc. when imf stepped in, they can easily trust their finances towards ukraine with an eye to rebuilding. this can cover our financial needs.
and now we are talking not just for 2023. we are already starting negotiations. much of the support you've received, particularly from the eu, has been in the form of repayable loans rather than donations. i mean, i'mjust wondering, are you worried that ukraine is going to be saddled with a mountain of debt, that you're just not going to be able to pay off? we're not worried about that concern right now, of course, for us is preferable to receive grant financing, but mfa finance and macro financial assistance from the eu, it's the money which they can provide for us, and the money which we are attracting from the eu is rather cheap money because eu borrows from their risk as well as money with a long term maturity. as last year it was 15 plus. this year is around 30 years to full repayment. sergeii, you recently met with the boss of the imf, the international monetary fund, when she came to kyiv.
address to congress is really important to show that we are looking forward to getting support because we are fighting for values shared by american citizens when you establish the state of your country. >> just quickly, do you believe the latest round of u.s. assistance is going to bring the war any closer to an end, sergeii? >> yes. ukrainians will come back. without ukrainians coming back, it's difficult to restore our economy. people are leaving ukraine now because they cannot survive without electricity, 36 hours without electricity is a big deal, people have no access to water supply, the problem the water supply. this is crucial. it will stop people suffering. it'll stop people dying, but also make us closer to victory. it'll let our security system work properly and weapons supply
get washington thinking about what long term support for ukraine looks like. >> do you think it's going to be closer to an end was going to be my question. but do you think it was a smart move for him to do this considering the security. it's in your face to vladimir putin. will the kremlin view it as provocative is the question? >> they've viewed everything about the fact that zelenskyy is up talking to the ukrainian people and the american people and the west every night on the internet to be a provocative move. this will also be provocative. we're expecting to hear from putin today. he's supposed to be giving a speech as well to a russian defense ministry group. whether they're talking past each other or two each other is a little bit hard to tell. but i think for zelenskyy it's tric tricky.
work properly as well. but it's also important for our civilians to live in ukraine, stay in ukraine. but to be on the front line we're looking forward for your support not only in patriot but weapons to be provided to ukraine. we demonstrated on the front line in kharkiv, kherson regions last three, four months, ukrainian army is able to deoccupy. ukrainian army is one of the strongest in the world. asking ukraine to join nato will make nato stronger. >> sergeii, senior adviser to president zelenskyy's chief of staff. thank you. appreciate you appearing. let's bring in cnn's national security analyst, david sanger. david, this visit of president zelenskyy to washington was almost unthinkable ten months ago. >> ten months ago, kaitlan, he wasn't supposed to be alive to
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that's why we can't deliver the necessary amount of corn to our customers. as well as iron ore, semi—finished iron is also under pressure over how to deliver it to customers in europe or other countries. now we so now we are trying to adapt our infrastructure, especially western border infrastructure, in order to receive the necessary amount of exports towards the west of ukraine. sergeii, last month your president, president zelensky, told the world bank and the imf, the international monetary fund, that ukraine needs $7 billion a month to make up for economic losses. what would that money
internally displaced people, people which need the most government support. sergeii, last year your tax revenues, which of course is a big share of the money you are able to spend as a government, those tax revenues were on course to be higher than $30 billion for the first time. what is it likely to be this year and what does the fall in those tax revenues mean? it means that we can collect less taxes because of war damages, because more than 20% of our businesses are fully closed. it means that we can't manage to fulfil our necessary duty