KYIV, Dec 21 – Ukraine has received the first tranche under the new Stand-By Arrangement (SBA) with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the amount of SDR 1 billion (around $1.4 billion), which boosted the country's forex reserves to $20.1 billion as of December 21, 2018.

"This is a five-year maximum. For the last time this level of forex reserves was recorded in January 2014," the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU) said in a report on Friday.