KIEV, March 5 – The U.S. leadership will consider providing an additional loan guarantee for Ukraine of up to $1 billion in late 2015, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland said.

"Today we are working with Europe, the Ukrainians, and the IMF to strengthen the country's economy and support implementing the government's reform plan, including a new $1 billion U.S. loan guarantee. If Ukraine continues making concrete progress on its economic reform agenda and conditions warrant, the U.S. Administration will also be willing, working with Congress, to consider providing an additional loan guarantee of up to $1 billion in late 2015," Nuland said during her speech in the U.S. Congress, which is available on the U.S. Embassy in Kiev's website.