KIEV (AFP) – The International Monetary Fund has decided to release the next $1 billion loan payment to Ukraine, which had been postponed following the blockade imposed on the separatist east of the country, the Ukrainian president said Monday.The IMF board took the decision to grant Ukraine one billion dollars, Petro Poroshenko wrote on his Facebook page, seeing it as another sign of the reforms under way in Ukraine.Cash-starved Ukraine has been desperately waiting for the next instalment of a $17.5-billion rescue programme that has been held up repeatedly since it was agreed in 2015 over delays by Kiev to …read more
Source: Dunya TV
