Ukraine hopes IMF talks can be successfully concluded in next two days


KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine and a team from the International Monetary Fund could reach an agreement on further financial aid for the country's war-battered economy in the next 48 hours even though talks are proving tough, its prime minister said on Wednesday.

The ex-Soviet republic, which is on the brink of bankruptcy after a year of political upheaval and war, is in talks with a visiting IMF team which it hopes will lead to a bigger, longer-term funding plan than its current $17 billion (11.15 billion pounds) programme.

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