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The International Monetary Fund has announced it will give Ukraine loans worth $US15.15 billion ($A17 billion) over the next two and a half years, in a bid to help the country recover from crisis. Read the story here.

"Ukraine is emerging from a difficult period during which the economy was severely hit by external shocks and exacerbated by domestic vulnerabilities," said John Lipksy, the fund’s second in charge announcing the approval by the IMF executive board.

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