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

This additional issue increased the total amount of Eurobonds in circulation with an interest rate of 6.876 percent to $1.25 billion.

The central bank said it was ready to raise the interest rate in future to 8.5 percent and to keep it at this level until the second quarter of 2022.

Until now Russia was dependent on pipelines crossing Ukraine to pump natural gas to Europe, earning Kyiv $2 billion a year.