LONDON, March 11 - Ukraine, seeking to plug a $15 billion-plus funding gap via debt restructuring, may find that a multi-year payment moratorium does the trick, with investors possibly having to swallow a smaller eventual writedown than feared, Reuters reported.

The country got the nod from the International Monetary Fund on Wednesday for a $17.5 billion loan package, and the fund assumes Kiev will get $15.4 billion from talks with creditors.