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Ukraine seeking new four-year lending programme with IMF
Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on September 19, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
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Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on September 19, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
Ukraine seeks a new four-year IMF lending programme to address significant funding needs and a projected budget deficit of $18.1 billion for 2026.
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine's finance minister Serhii Marchenko said on Friday that the country was seeking a new four-year lending programme from the IMF.
Ukraine's current $15.5 billion programme with the IMF expires in 2027.
"As you know, there was a recent IMF mission, and we raised the issue of the need for a new programme and the need for its financing," Marchenko told Ukraine's parliament.
"Overall, the funds needed to finance a four-year programme could amount to between $150 billion and $170 billion over a four-year period."
Marchenko also told parliament that the unfunded gap in Ukraine's budget for 2026 was currently $18.1 billion.
(Reporting by Anastasiia Malenko, writing by Max Hunder, Editing by Alex Richardson)
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