KYIV, May 5 – President Petro Poroshenko expressed his confidence that the process of creating an Anti-Corruption Court will be completed in the first half of 2018, possibly in May.

"We are trying to speed up the process of the formation of the Anti-Corruption Court. I am convinced that we will succeed in the first half of the year, possibly in May, and then we will receive the next tranche [of the IMF]," Poroshenko said in an interview with the German newspaper Focus, which is quoted by the Ukrainian president's press service on Saturday.