KYIV, Oct 4 – The European Commission promises to pay Ukraine a tranche of macro-financial assistance in the amount of EUR 5 billion as soon as possible, Executive Vice President of the European Commission Valdis Dombrovskis has said.

"Yesterday I signed the Memorandum of Understanding with Ukraine for the next macro-financial assistance of EUR 5 billion. We will disburse the first part – EUR 2 billion – by mid-October," he said at a press conference on Tuesday in Luxembourg following the meeting of the EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN).