KYIV, May 26 – Unmet funding needs for Ukraine's first recovery this year are about another $6.5 billion, out of a total estimate of $14.1 billion, Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko said in a panel discussion at a meeting of the IMF and World Bank group of member countries in Montenegro.

"The timely raising of these funds is critical to creating proper living conditions for people, returning migrants and promoting economic growth in Ukraine," the minister was quoted as saying in a Finance Ministry press release on Friday.