KYIV, April 18 – Ukraine’s slow pace in fighting corruption and failure to hike domestic natural gas prices forced the International Monetary Fund to postpone indefinitely its lending to the country, Finance Minister Oleksandr Danyliuk said Wednesday.

"Adoption of the anti-corruption court law is a top IMF demand, as well as the top demand of Ukrainians," Danyliuk said on Wednesday, speaking at the non-governmental Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C.