KYIV, Sept 18 – The Ukrainian government at the talks with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has reached an agreement in principal on the gradual increase of the price of gas to the level of the imported price parity by 2020, Board Chairman of national joint-stock company Naftogaz Ukrayiny Andriy Kobolev has said.

"There is a preliminary compromise that the government has reached [with the IMF]. The pace is now being discussed," he said at the forum of the European Business Association in Kyiv on Tuesday.