Last week, more than 600 entrepreneurs received loans under the Government’s Affordable Loans at 5-7-9% programme totalling UAH 2.2 billion. Since the beginning of 2023, banks have granted 13,800 loans worth UAH 48.7 billion to businesses. Since the start of the programme in February 2020, 66,900 loans worth UAH 215.7 billion have been granted.

The largest share of loans was for anti-crisis purposes – UAH 61.1 billion, and for anti-war purposes – UAH 54.2 billion. UAH 28.5 billion was disbursed to refinance previously obtained loans, UAH 18.9 billion to replenish working capital, and UAH 15.2 billion for investment purposes. In addition, farmers received UAH 32.5 billion in loans to support their operations, while trading companies borrowed UAH 3.1 billion to replenish working capital.

The most frequent borrowers under the programme are companies operating in the following sectors:

• agriculture (53%),
• trade and manufacturing (24%),
• industrial processing (13%).

Among the regions, Lviv, Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Vinnytsia regions and the city of Kyiv are the leaders in terms of the amount of loan agreements concluded.

Currently, 45 banks participate in the programme.