KIEV, Sept. 21 - The government of Ukraine has spent $1.2 billion of a $2 billion short-term bridge loan issued by Russia's VTB Bank in early June, Finance Minister Fedir Yaroshenko reported.

"We attracted a $2 billion credit, [and] it provided us with serious resources. We have spent $1.2 billion, and the remaining sum is on the account," he told journalists in Kiev.