KIEV, Oct. 18 – A mission of the International Monetary Fund is expected to arrive in Kiev on October 26 to determine Ukraine's eligibility for further assistance under its Extended Fund Facility, the Finance Ministry announced.

The four-year EFF program for Ukraine totaling SDR 12.348 billion (about $17 billion at a current exchange rates), opened by the IMF in March 2015, originally foresaw quarterly revisions of the program, as well as the issue of four tranches to Kiev in 2015, and reduction of quarterly tranches in 2016-2018.