KIEV, Dec. 28 – The successful continuation of the IMF-supported Extended Fund Facility that Ukraine hopes to see would allow the country to discuss the merger of the tranches early 2016, Deputy Finance Minister Artem Shevalev said in an interview with Apostrof online publication at apostrophe.com.ua on Monday.

Initially it was agreed that all the tranches in 2016 would be sent to the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU)… We believe that reserves should be supported, but maybe, we will discuss [an idea] that a part of the sum is sent to the budget," he said.

He said that now this is a minor technical issue.