KYIV, Jan 18 - Ukraine, in the absence of additional shocks, may pass the second half of 2022 without an urgent conclusion of a new program with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Danylo Hetmantsev, the head of the Verkhovna Rada committee on finance, taxation and customs policy, believes.

"If there are no shocks, I would not see any problems with servicing the public debt in 2022 and fulfilling our obligations - such problems that would force us to conclude a new program with the IMF right tomorrow," he said on the Rada TV channel.