Investors holding high-yielding bonds – many of them bought at heavy discounts after Russia’s annexation of Crimea last year – are demanding to be paid in full. Ukraine’s government, for its part, argues that the country’s financial difficulties – in particular the economic effects of the conflict and the plunge in the value of the hryvnia – have made its debt burden unsustainable.
发自伦敦——除了自身众多问题之外，乌克兰如今也到了跟其债权人摊牌的时候。那些持有高息债券——其中许多都是在去年俄罗斯吞并克里米亚之后大幅折价购入——的投资者都在要求连本带息全额支付。而乌克兰政府方面则声称本国所面对的经济困难——尤其是军事冲突带来的经济冲击和本国货币格里夫尼亚的大幅贬值——使得自身债务负担无以为继。