This was stressed by President Petro Poroshenko. As he said during the fifth meeting of the Regional Development Council yet 3 years ago a default in Ukraine seemed to be evitable , because then the war, closure of the Russian market and the fall in world prices for key products of Ukrainian exports simultaneously hit the Ukrainian economy.
Due to the unpopular steps it became possible to keep the situation , he said. Following the results of 2016 GDP grew by 2.2 percent..