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Finance Ministry Serhiy Marchenko expects the arrival of the mission of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Ukraine in July-August.

“The mission’s arrival is planned for July-August, rather in July. And after that we can expect the next tranche,” he told reporters in Kyiv after a report on the implementation of the 2019 national budget in parliament.

Marchenko added that Ukraine plans to abandon borrowing from the IMF directly to the budget in 2022.