Kyiv expects "today or tomorrow" the admission of the first tranche of the loan from the IMF in the amount of about us $ 5 billion, said on Thursday the head of the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine Natalie Jaresko.
The Board of Directors of the IMF on Wednesday blesed four-year program of financial assistance to Ukraine in the amount of 17, 5 billion dollars.
"This new IMF loan, the 1st tranche, which will arrive tomorrow, hopefully, if not today, gives us the opportunity to begin again the gold and foreign currency reserves of the national Bank and to be able to the government for external payments," said Yaresko.
"1st tranche shall be approximately $ 5 billion of this amount to the accounts of the NBU, to replenish its gold reserves will be 2, 2 bn, 2, 8 billion will be transferred to the government for fulfilling its obligations ", - said the head of the Ministry of Finance.
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