KYIV, Oct 13 - Ukraine may receive a tranche of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the amount of about $1.4 billion in October-December 2021, J.P. Morgan said in the October EMEA EM Emerging Markets research.

We believe that the IMF will pay a tranche of $1.4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2021, but is considering a possible range of this amount from $1 billion to $1.5 billion, J.P. Morgan said.

KYIV, Oct 18 – Ukraine has agreed to implement a set of reforms that may open the way for resumption of lending from the International Monetary Fund once lawmakers approve required legislation and the government keeps fiscal discipline.

KYIV, Oct 16 – Ukraine, within the framework of the COVAX initiative, may receive vaccines from manufacturers AstraZeneca and Novavax, Deputy Minister of Health, Chief State Sanitary Doctor Viktor Liashko said during a press briefing in Kyiv on Friday.

KYIV, Oct 16 – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s plan to ask Ukrainians whether they support creation of a free economic area in Donetsk and Luhansk regions is misleading, an analyst at economic think tank said Friday.

ISTANBUL, Oct 16 - Turkey and Ukraine signed military cooperation agreements in Istanbul on Friday, deepening a defense partnership seen as an effort to counterbalance Russia's dominance in the Black Sea region, The Associated Press reported.

KYIV, Oct 17 – The Prosecutor General's Office (PGO) has sent a request for extradition of citizen of Ukraine Dmytro Malinovsky detained in France for fraud, the press service of the prosecutor's office of Kyiv has reported.

KYIV, Oct 17 – Ukraine is negotiating with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on the formula of calculating gas prices for domestic consumers before the complete liberalization of the market, Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk said.

ZHYTOMYR, Oct 17 – The financing of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be increased from UAH 64.5 billion in 2017 to almost UAH 84 billion in 2018, according to the draft state budget, President Petro Poroshenko said.

KYIV, Oct 17 – The International Monetary Fund has not yet discussed the date for the next team coming to Kyiv within the fourth review of the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) program, IMF First Deputy Managing Director David Lipton said.

KYIV, Oct. 17 - Former Georgian leader and former Odessa governor Mikheil Saakashvili told a mass rally in Kiev on Tuesday that President Petro Poroshenko needed to quit as activists set out demands for the government to tackle entrenched state graft.