KYIV, Nov 24 – President Petro Poroshenko has announced reaching an agreement on the European Union macro-financial assistance program for Ukraine for 2018-2019.

"We have agreed that next week the European Commission will issue a communiqué on a very ambitious macro-financial assistance plan for 2018-2019, three tranches. It will have the same volume and will start operating in January 2018," he said at the press conference of the Eastern Partnership summit in Brussels on Friday.