MUNICH, Feb 19 – The European Commission is working to ensure that Ukraine receives the first tranche of the Ukraine Facility program in the amount of EUR 4.5 billion in the first half of March, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission Valdis Dombrovskis has said.

The EU is completing the legislative process in the European Parliament, but it is going according to plan, and they are working on the payment already in the first half of March if everything goes according to plan, he told reporters on the sidelines of a roundtable at the Munich Security Conference dedicated to Ukraine's recovery.