The first EUR 600 million disbursement was transferred to Ukraine in December 2020.
Ukraine may receive the second disbursement of macro-financial assistance (MFA) in the amount of EUR 600 million this year.
This was announced by European Union Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Oliver Várhelyi at a press conference after an EU-Ukraine Association Council meeting on February 11.
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"We have provided EUR 1.2 billion [in] macro-financial assistance to help Ukraine in the economy and macro-finances to cope with this crisis. From that we have already disbursed EUR 600 million and we are supposed to disburse a second tranche still this year," he said.