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Ukraine's overall state (direct and guaranteed) debt shrank by 0.4%, or $223 million, in June 2012, to $60.026 billion, the Ukrainian Finance Ministry said in a posting on its Web site.

In the six months of 2012, overall state debt grew by 1.4%, or $810 million, from $59.216 billion.