KYIV, March 22 – The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund has completed the third review of the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) program for Ukraine and approved the allocation of the fourth tranche of approximately $880 million (SDR663.9 million), which will be used to support the budget.

"The authorities continue to perform strongly under the EFF under challenging conditions, meeting all but one quantitative performance criteria for end-December, all structural benchmarks through end-February, and all indicative targets," the report says.