KYIV, April 22 – The tremendous efforts being made by the Ukrainian authorities to maintain macroeconomic and financial stability will become even more difficult to maintain in the face of huge shocks and dire circumstances without additional external financial support, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Kristalina Georgieva has said.

More external financing is necessary – especially concessional funding and fast-disbursing grants," she said, opening the Ukraine Roundtable with participation of Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal as part of the Spring Meetings of the IMF and the World Bank on Thursday.