KYIV, Aug 29 – The tranche from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the amount of $1.98 billion after the fourth review of the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) will arrive in the second half of 2018, the Finance Ministry forecast.

The ministry said that the two problematic issues to be solved for the provision of the tranche – the increase of gas tariffs for households and the observation of the upper limit of the deficit at 2.5% of GDP – are in progress.

There is no forecast for the next six tranches under the EFF program in the presentation.