“Today the IMF mission led by Ron van Rooden has started its work in Ukraine. Now a meeting of the mission with NBU Governor Valeria Gontareva and her deputies is taking place,” reads the report. The IMF mission will stay in Ukraine for two weeks. In early October it was reported that in case Ukraine implements several conditions for successful implementation of the extended fund facility programme of Ukraine – IMF cooperation Kyiv would receive 1.3 billion US dollars by the end of this year and over five billion dollars next year, with the biggest tranche of 2 billion slated for the first quarter of 2017.