KIEV: (AFP) – The International Monetary Fund said on Saturday it would dispatch a team to Ukraine to determine just how much extra aid the war-wrecked and energy-starved nation will need to make it through winter.The nine-day visit due to start on Tuesday comes as Ukraine suffers rolling blackouts and resentment grows over a severe IMF-prescribed austerity drive.The Fund has helped piece together a $27-billion (22-billion-euro) global rescue package — promising to contribute $17 billion of that sum over two years — in the weeks that followed the February ouster in Kiev of a Russian-backed president.But it has since said …read more
Source: Dunya TV
