"The staff of the International Monetary Fund and the authorities of Ukraine reached an agreement in the economic policy of a 14-month agreement on the right to use the loan," the IMF said.

They stressed that the new stand-by agreement would replace the agreements in the framework of expanded funding, which were approved in March 2015 and will expire in March 2019.

The organization intends to provide Ukraine 2.8 billion SDR (currency used in the calculations of the IMF. - RT ), which is equivalent to $ 3.9 billion

Earlier, the IMF has worsened the forecast for Ukraine’s GDP growth in 2019-2020.

Also, the Chairman of the Accounting Chamber of Ukraine Valery Patskan said that the state budget for the first three quarters of 2018 did not receive 93.6 billion hryvnia.