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equivalent of almost all the $2.6bn Ukraine received from Russia’s Gazprom in December, which finally paid an award to Kyiv that had been ordered by the Stockholm Arbitration Court a year earlier.
The central bank estimated on April 1 that remittances from Ukrainians working abroad will drop this year by up to 25%, or $3bn. This comes after President Zelenskiy urged Ukrainians to come home. Now, facing an extra half a million unemployed, the government is creating a jobs program.
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