This year, Ukraine paid the IMF more than it received. On Friday, December 1, Ukraine transferred to the International Monetary Fund the last payment in 2017 in the amount of 114.3 million special drawing rights ($ 169 million). This is on Saturday, December 2, Ukrainian News reports with reference to the press service of the National Bank of Ukraine.

In total for 2017, Ukraine paid 858.7 million special drawing rights - $ 1.268 billion. At the same time, Ukraine received within a year from the IMF one tranche of $ 1 billion. As it was reported, the IMF experts visited Kiev on November 9 to study the bill on the state budget. Recall, the International Monetary Fund has put forward four demands to Ukraine for obtaining the next tranche.

Original article: For the year, Ukraine paid the IMF $ 1.3 billion.