Tymoshenko asked the G7 five billion dollars.

SyuzhetyRossiyskie loans to countries SNG10.02.2009Peregovory Ukraine to the Russian Ministry of Finance was forced to leave the IMF delegation KievaKommentariiPredvyborny kredit10.02.2009Premer Ukraine has asked for help from KremlyaPremer Minister Yulia Tymoshenko asked the ambassadors of the G "(G7) in the negotiations on the allocation of their countries, the Ukrainian side a loan to cover the budget deficit. This is the agency "Interfax". According to Tymoshenko, Ukraine for this purpose must be five billion dollars.
In turn, 10 February, the Acting Head of Press Service, U.S. Department of State Robert Wood said that the U.S. government will consider the request by Ukraine to provide it with a loan in the event will receive such a request, sends PRIME-TASS.
Remember, in early February, Tymoshenko said that Moscow is ready to give Kiev a stabilization loan, not naming the conditions for obtaining a loan. At the same time, Ukrainian Prime sent a letter requesting financial assistance to authorities in the U.S., Japan, China and the EU. Later, the Ministry of Finance Russia confirmed that the negotiations in Moscow with representatives of the Ukrainian Ministry of Finance for a loan of 5 billion dollars, but the official credit for the Government of Ukraine has not appealed.
In 2008, Ukraine has already agreed with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a loan of 16.5 billion dollars, the first tranche of which 4.5 billion dollars has already received the Ukrainian side. One of the conditions for the allocation of this loan, as required by the IMF, is strengthened Ukraine in 2009.
On 10 February it became known that the IMF mission left Kiev, saying that it was unable to agree on a number of issues with the authorities. However, the media was informed that one of the reasons for the departure of the delegation of the fund was the need to discuss further the flow of the IMF loan to Ukraine. Previously, it was anticipated that the Fund's decision to allocate the second part of the loan will be decided at the IMF until mid-February, but now its adoption is postponed for an indefinite period.
Ukraine's economy is one of the most affected by the global financial crisis. In particular, promproizvodstvo in December 2008 declined by more than 25 per cent, but by the end of the year - at 3.1 percent. Particularly badly affected the metallurgical industry. At the end of January 2009 in the Ukrainian mass media has a note attributed to the Minister of Finance of Ukraine Viktor Pynzenyk, which stated that the economy is on the verge of collapse.