YALTA, Sept. 28 – The Ukrainian economy is among those that most of all suffered from crisis in the world, according to a global financier and philanthropist, George Soros.

"Ukraine was close to default... In this hard situation the fact that [the country] was successful in avoiding a terrible catastrophe is a large achievement," he said during the teleconference bridge at the sixth YES (Yalta European Strategy) summit.

He said that Ukraine's closeness to default was partially linked to the political situation, when the president controls the central bank, and the government does not control it and it was difficult to do something.