Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has cried foul over the $11 billion route, calling it a sell-out to the Kremlin leader, though his rhetoric has calmed of late.

The bank widened the interest rate corridor to plus/minus 2 percentage points from plus/minus 1 percentage points.

The IMF expects Uzbekistan’s economy to grow by 5 percent in 2021, but says that the recovery could be delayed by a resurgence of COVID-19 infections.

Ukraine’s Antonov State Enterprise, formerly known as the Antonov Design Bureau, was founded in the late 1940s.

Lenders reported a fall in total net profit of 1.5 percent year-on-year of 366.3 million manats ($215.5 million) in the period from January to June 2021, but an increase from the 273.2 million manats reported a month earlier.