KIEV, Aug. 11 – The International Monetary Fund does not predict a worsening of the economic situation in Ukraine in 2009, IMF Resident Representative in Ukraine Max Alier said.

"In the global economy, the crisis has already reached its bottom. As for Ukraine, we don't forecast a worsening of the situation. I haven't been in Ukraine for long, and perhaps I have yet to study in full all of the trends, [but] I don't understand the talk about a new wave of the crisis.