Ukraine hasn't spent $3 billion that it has received from Russia as it should, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told reporters after a meeting with the prime ministers of Kazakhstan and Belarus in Moscow.
“This money has played a considerable role in the emergence of
macroeconomic stability over a certain period, and I repeat these aren’t
my words, but the words of the IMF head. What does this say? It says we
have provided this sort of support [to Ukraine] in the past and are
essentially continuing to do so, and that’s not to mention the gas
discounts,” Medvedev said.
Medvedev said huge amounts had been involved, which “the Ukrainian
state and leaders should really have been spending on the development of
their own country and their own economy.”
“But I’ll be frank and say they have not spent this money as they
should have and that the Ukrainian economy is in a very difficult
state,” Medvedev said.
