KYIV, April 13 – The government of Japan plans to send $3.5 billion of direct budget support to Ukraine during 2023, these funds will help finance priority, namely social and humanitarian spending.

According to the press service of the Ministry of Finance, this was discussed at a meeting between Japanese Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki and Ukrainian Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko in Washington on the sidelines of the Spring Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank.