"There will be a visit towards the end of the month," Arvanitis stated. "We are going to be going back to Kiev to have the discussions for the third review of the program. We have the full range of talks with the government."
Arvanitis underscored that the IMF mission will discuss a number of issues with Kiev, including the Ukrainian $3-billion debt to Russia.
In September, the IMF executive board approved a new $1-billion tranche to Ukraine. The amount of the aid package had been reduced from the originally planned $1.7 billion.
The IMF has also said that it could allocate a total of $2.3 billion to Ukraine by the end of 2016.
On March 11, 2015, the IMF approved a four-year program of financial aid to Ukraine, which stipulates a $17.5-billion loan to be paid out in a number of installments over the next four years and originally open for reviewing on a quarterly basis.
Ukraine heavily relies on foreign aid to support its economy and to pay debts amid the ongoing armed conflict with independence supporters in the country's southeast.
