KYIV, Oct 7 – The Ministry of Finance over the past month lowered the forecast of payments on public debt in the fourth quarter of 2019 by UAH 2.78 billion, to UAH 80.30 billion and increased for the first quarter of 2020 by UAH 2.50 billion, to UAH 115.03 billion.

According to the website of the ministry, the predicted payments on domestic debt in the fourth quarter are UAH 1.74 billion lower than the indicators a month ago and amount to UAH 71.33 billion, while the updated estimate of payments for the first quarter of 2020 was raised by UAH 2.5 billion, to UAH 79.42 billion.