"The Ministry of Finance has not received any appeals from Germany," Jaresko told journalists, adding that the situation with the debt to Russia remained "unchanged."
On Tuesday, the Russian Finance Ministry said it had received a letter from the German Finance Ministry outlining a possible solution to the Ukrainian debt issue, however, there were no direct proposals from the debtor, the Ukrainian Finance Ministry, as it was common in the international practice.
Earlier in the day, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told Sputnik in an interview that Kiev’s proposals for the settlement of its $3-billion debt to Russia sent via Berlin were unacceptable, but Russia was grateful to the German authorities for the initiative.
Kiev owes Russia $3 billion in Eurobonds. The debt was secured by the government of then-President Viktor Yanukovych in late 2013. Moscow has repeatedly stated that Ukraine's failure to pay back the debt by the December 20 deadline should be classified as a default.
Moscow disagrees with Kiev's stance that the bond is part of an external commercial debt, arguing that the bond is a sovereign loan provided by one country to another.
