WASHINGTON, March 3 - President Donald Trump on Monday directed a “pause” to U.S. assistance to Ukraine as he seeks to pressure Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to engage in negotiations to end the war with Russia.
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KYIV, March 3 – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff and the Ukrainian authorities have reached staff level agreement (SLA) on the Seventh Review of the four-year Extended Fund Facility (EFF) Arrangement worth $15.5 billion, which subject to approval by the IMF Executive Board, paves the way for the eighth tranche of about $400 million (SDR 300 million), bringing the total disbursements under the program to $10.1 billion.
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KYIV, March 3 - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has revised downward the forecast for Ukraine's economic growth in 2025, reducing it by 0.5 percentage points (p.p.) compared to the previous forecast - to 2-3%, the fund said in a press release following the results of the mission's work on the seventh review of the Extended Fund Facility (EFF).
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KYIV, March 3 – A GBP 2.258 billion (about $3 billion) loan agreement between Ukraine and the UK, which will be repaid from income received from immobilised Russian assets, was signed on Saturday. It will be used to strengthen Ukraine's defense capability, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
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KYIV, March 3 - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced his readiness to sign a minerals deal with the United States and this could be the first step towards security guarantees.
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KYIV, March 2 - UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced a four-point plan to work with Ukraine to end the war and defend the country from Russia, BBC reported Sunday.
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KYIV, Feb 28 – The UN has suspended a program to provide assistance to a number of Ukrainian regions due to a reduction in the organization's funding from Washington, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Friday.
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KYIV, Feb 28 – The Ukrainian government will receive a grant from Japan for the implementation of the fourth phase of the Emergency Recovery Program in the amount of $58 million, which will be directed, among other things, to humanitarian demining, energy, water supply, public health and safety, and education, the press service of the Ministry of Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine reported.
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KYIV, Feb 28 – Two weeks after it was hit by a drone on February 14, Ukrainian firefighters are still trying to extinguish smouldering fires within the large structure built over the reactor destroyed in the 1986 Chornobyl nuclear accident, Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reported.
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KYIV, Feb 28 - The situation with natural gas in Ukraine makes it necessary to ensure the operation of generation plants not only on this type of fuel, but also on alternative ones, believes Yuriy Boiko, a member of the supervisory board of Ukrenergo.
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